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I always said this, C is so huge that it make no sense to try to "replace" it, you'd better make sure you can easily consume that ecosystem That's a step in th

I always said this, C is so huge that it make no sense to try to "replace" it, you'd better make sure you can easily consume that ecosystem That's a step in the right direction! I love D!

pjmlp 5y ago
True, but we can still try to fix it somehow, because certain eco-systems will never move beyond C and it would be nice not to have to worry about its famous issues as we do to this day.
- galangalalgol 5y ago
  Rewrite it all in Rust! I mean D! Or... Zig maybe? Lots of valid IOT languages, but how many are actually in refrigerators or mice or keyboards or car door oepners? That is a lot of inertia.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    My point was fixing C, the ecosystems that value it after 50 years aren't going to rewrite their code into something else, as much as many of us would like it to happen.
    - galangalalgol 5y ago
      Yes, I was agreeing with you and forgot to tag my snarkyness as such.
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        Ah, sorry if I missed then. Here is one example from Apple in that regard, search for "Memory safe iBoot implementation". https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
mariusor 5y ago
> C is so huge Are you sure you're not thinking about C++? C is a small language.
- ksec 5y ago
  In the sense of its ecosystem and current usage.
- ZuLuuuuuu 5y ago
  I think by being huge he/she means C is very popular and there is so much code out there already written in C.