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Maybe a bit unrelated to the post, but I have been wanting to ask the question of why you still choose C as you language for new projects. Is it because that is
by erk__ 6y ago
Maybe a bit unrelated to the post, but I have been wanting to ask the question of why you still choose C as you language for new projects. Is it because that is what you have always used and what you know best or do you not think modern languages like go, rust, nim etc. are sufficiently better?
ps. I really hope that you can get a nerd talk about your eso project accepted, it sounds like a really interesting project.
- phkamp 6y agoI agree that choice of language is important, but you cannot just consider the language in isolation. I have spent almost four decades becoming better at writing C and I write much better programs in C than I do in any other language because of it, and if you asked me to write something very important today, I would trust the result more, if I wrote it in C, even if that were, on some objective scale, not the best language for the task. With that said, a lot of my recent projects, I have chosen python3, which I am now, after some years of "toy-projects", starting to feel quite comfortable with.