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C is like water. Atomically it is the DNA of all other programming languages. There's a reason why C is generally the fastest language with smaller binaries, an
by sys_64738 7y ago
C is like water. Atomically it is the DNA of all other programming languages. There's a reason why C is generally the fastest language with smaller binaries, and there's a reason why language like Python fallback to C for doing anything processor intensive. C will still be here when the latest fad languages of today are long forgotten.
- 317070 7y agoWell, it will be still here in the same way Fortran is still here. I.e. while now it does not seem to bad, there will come a time where people will wonder why anyone put up with coding in C, when it was so prone to making bugs with things that could be automated away. In exactly the same way we now frown on goto statements. But, underneath it all, there will be this layer of C-code on top of this fortran code on top of this assembler code.
- fctorial 7y agoIn clojureland we fallback to java for doing anything processor intensive.
- myrrlyn 7y agoNot a word of what you just wrote is true.