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some would say that C itself is obsolete.. Ok, I can hear a bunch of people already piping up and whining how they're programming on a 8-bit toaster and only ha
by ensiferum 8y ago
some would say that C itself is obsolete.. Ok, I can hear a bunch of people already piping up and whining how they're programming on a 8-bit toaster and only have a C compiler..but apart from that there are no real reasons to use C anymore since it's obsolete.
- Gibbon1 8y agoUntil rust came along you had three non CG options C, C++ and ADA. If you also have a no heap requirement you're left with just C and ADA. Rust is interesting if you can live with slow compile times and 4X the memory footprint of C.
- keldaris 8y agoWhy does the no heap requirement preclude C++? Obviously, you couldn't use much of the STL (not really a loss in constrained environments), but I don't see a reason to write off the language itself?
- nickpsecurity 8y agoIt is used in embedded. I think that refutes the claim.
- steveklabnik 8y agoThe memory footprint thing shouldn’t be different now; we stopped using jemalloc by default.