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> we are to start phasing out C and write modern OSes in safe languages. Linus Torvolds probably has the best answer to why not. https://www.reddit.com/r/prog
by bb88 9y ago
> we are to start phasing out C and write modern OSes in safe languages.
Linus Torvolds probably has the best answer to why not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t0gfy/linus_torvalds_on_the_question_if_there_is_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t0gfy/linus_t...
"When I read C, I know what the assembly language will look like."
- cmrdporcupine 9y agoExcept in this day and age reading the assembly language doesn't give you the same kind of insight into how the hardware will perform as it did 15 years ago.
- minipci1321 9y agoOh, it might still give the same insight -- for example, when people reading assembler today are the same ones who did that 15 years ago.
- bb88 9y agoOr in BSD's case, 30 or 40 years ago.
- pjmlp 9y agoOnly at optimization level 0 and assuming a dumb C compiler.
- imtringued 9y agoAnd you're compiling to a specific architecture.