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>"C was amazing when it was introduced" It was not amazing. It was decent particular tool for particular job. That was all about it. Same thing about Rust. The
by FpUser 6y ago
>"C was amazing when it was introduced"
It was not amazing. It was decent particular tool for particular job. That was all about it. Same thing about Rust. There are no silver bullets laying around.
- zepto 6y agoWhether you want to say it was amazing or not, it’s a legacy tool now.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoWhat do the cool kids use to write realtime or realtime-ish software with these days? What gets used for firmware? What gets used to write kernels? What gets used when you have to interact with hardware that uses memory mapped registers? It might be C++ instead of C for some of the above, but that doesn't make C "a legacy tool".
- zepto 6y agoI’m not saying it isn’t used. I’m saying it’s a legacy tool from the early 70’s that is absolutely terrible compared to what we could have. Cool kids use it because there is no alternative.
- FpUser 6y agoIt is not
- zepto 6y agoTwo words: Buffer overrun