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> You need also factor development time and ease of finding developers willing to work in a specific language This even more strongly favors Rust or Swift. Nob

• zbentley 2mo ago
  If you just meant apple-targeting developers, then yeah; you're right that those languages are in decline. But if you meant developers in general, I think you'd be surprised how many growth sectors are hiring C programmers. They're often not SaaS tech companies, but they are massive and many are growing. Hardware, industrial control systems, defense/aerospace ... there's a ton there, the spaces in which they hire just don't overlap a ton with the spaces frequented by hacker news. Also, a lot of them aren't US based companies. I hope that changes over time, since I definitely agree that the downsides of C-family languages massively outweigh the downsides of competitor languages.
  • pjmlp 2mo ago
    Which is why WG14 and WG21 caring about security would be quite relevant, but alas, priorities. C could have gotten slices already in the 90's, the concept already existed in other languages, and even Dennis Ritchie made a fat pointer proposal into that sense. The others, let see if anything related to profiles actually gets into C++29.
  • acdha 2mo ago
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