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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stop comparing programming languages

Python is versatile
JavaScript is powerful
Ruby is elegant
C is essential
C++
Java is robust

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I do embedded. Its all C. You can't replace it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can't replace it.

Zig?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, that's like C with ~~extra~~ fewer steps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Or Nim?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Inertia is a mofo. I did embedded programming for industrial automation almost thirty years ago, building upon and expanding an existing nightmare of C code... and I bet there's still some of mine running something out there to this day.