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I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 20

by sramsay 11mo ago

I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 2025. I have never seen a language with a better ffi into C than C.

lmm 11mo ago
> the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based What massive, maintained set is that? Base Unix is tiny, and any serious programming ecosystem has good alternatives for all of it.