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> I am sure lots of people would rejoice I'm one of those people and I spent ~6 years in embedded and I still write C today (though it's no longer my primary l
by scruple 9y ago
> I am sure lots of people would rejoice
I'm one of those people and I spent ~6 years in embedded and I still write C today (though it's no longer my primary language). Of my former co-workers, probably 50 people in total across 4 teams, exactly 0 of them were at all interested in any sort of C alternative. I'd wager less than 6 of them even knew what C alternatives were even picking up steam. If it wasn't talked about by folks like Michael Barr or Embedded magazine, they simply wouldn't have any way of finding out.
> Either way, I would not hold my breath for C becoming obsolete
I wouldn't either. Call it the old guard, call them greybeards, it really doesn't matter. They're the ones buying chips from vendors that supply C toolchains and compilers. Until that is addressed, none of this talk matters.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich is why there is the saying that progress can only be achieved by replacing generations.