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It also costs much more human lives.

• flohofwoe 3y ago
  This actually needs citation. All your computing devices run massive amounts of C code, yet we don't hear much about people dropping dead in front of their computers, killed by a memory corruption issue? In the only really popular case where a medical device killed people because of software bugs (Therac-25), the programming language was PDP-11 assembly. But even then the fault was much more in the software development process than the programming language.
  • feverzsj 3y ago
    I'm just saying coding in C costs significant more human hours, literally.
    • flohofwoe 3y ago
      That also depends on the task at hand. Text processing in C with just the stdlib? Sure, waste of time. Number crunching via SIMD intrinsics? The best option for that is most likely C with compiler-specific extensions.
      • pjmlp 3y ago
        Any programming language can have SIMD extensions, and in fact a couple of them do, nothing special about C in that regard. If anything it has been a pity that it didn't happen sooner, right away as SIMD became common.
• shrimp_emoji 3y ago
  And having less humans is also way greener!