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Plenty of languages far better suited for most use cases, yes we have that. But to replace C, there are not that much candidates. I don’t mean Rust is such a ca
by psychoslave 5y ago
Plenty of languages far better suited for most use cases, yes we have that. But to replace C, there are not that much candidates. I don’t mean Rust is such a candidate.
Maybe Zig is currently the closest thing to such a candidate, but it doesn’t even pretend to aim at this, andalign with the "C ABI as interoperation modus for foreign function interface" policy, like the rest[1] of programming languages.
[1] https://ziglearn.org/chapter-4/ https://ziglearn.org/chapter-4/
- pjmlp 5y agoFrom 1958 up to the mid-1980's many OSes were written in something else other than C, and in the 15 years that preceded it there were approaches beyond pure Assembly. Granted it is a matter for the market to be willing to move beyond it, and the OSes written in it, but the matter isn't technical per se, rather economical, political, human behaviours,...
- psychoslave 5y agoYes, we totally agree that this is not a purely technical issue. This is not completely unrelated, inertia here is also fed by technical considerations.