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> Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a

by badRNG 10mo ago

> Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a language itself written in C, or three isn't running on something written in C :)

psunavy03 10mo ago
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kgeist 10mo ago
If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get: C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C# C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby Self-hosted: Go, Rust Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.
- tmtvl 10mo ago
  I thought Rust still used LLVM (a C++ project) for the backend, did they already switch to Cranelift?
  - pjmlp 10mo ago
    No, it is still LLVM.
  - Dylan16807 10mo ago
    I believe they're talking about runtimes, not compilers.
- pjmlp 10mo ago
  Java and C# compilers are selfhosted. Then depending on which JVM implementation we are talking about the actual JVM runtime can be Java, C, or C++, or a mix of them. Modern C compilers are written in C++. Rust uses LLVM, written in C++.
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