Tell me again how C isn't a problemhttps://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1094986825041629184 …
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Matthew Garrett Retweeted Catalin Cimpanu
Tell me again how C isn't a problemhttps://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1094986825041629184 …
Matthew Garrett added,
"No way to prevent this", say programmers of only language where this regularly happens
Most of those languages you like are written in C, and have runtimes that prevent them from writing eachother. Complaining about C is like complaining about Verilog. It’s the right thing for its layer. It’s not the right thing for every layer.
C is good at a bunch of things people don’t entirely realize you might need to be good at. There are reasons libraries are written in C — only a few languages are really embeddable at all, securely or otherwise. The predecessor to Windows Vista was scrapped. JIT/C# didn’t work.
Your frustration is not illegitimate, but recognize there’s a wide variety of technical and *cognitive* factors that strongly indicate C and have little in the way of alternatives. That’s changing, as we *understand* C, not as we complain about it.
I agree that our understanding of C has progressed. We’ve come to understand that it’s a horribly outdated language and maybe, just maybe, we can do things better in 2019 than a language from 1978.
C embeds, drives systems with predictable-ish timing, runs everywhere, and has an active development community. That ain’t nothing. Everyone seems to forget the explosive growth happening in C++ right now, acting like that’s “some other thing”. Nope.
Oh, I missed this one! “Explosive growth in C++”? Really?pic.twitter.com/uESfSquAhr
Well, much fun as this is, back to wrassling userfaultfd. At least I can debug *that* :)
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