On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 23:27:02 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
There are attempts to rewrite it in safer programming languages
;-) Such as https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
I'd love to hear Lord Linus's thought on this.
Let's see if the alternative implementations turn out to be
good enough and allow to eventually retire C at least for this
particular task. Survival for the fittest.
Yes, as you say, 'survival of the fittest' also applied in
programming languages ;-)
That certainly says something about C.
Doesn't the D code annotated as `@system` already provide the
same flexibility and control as C? If not, then what is missing?
What missing, is that 'still' nothing has come close to replacing
C.
Yes, this paper makes a compelling case to look more closely at D.
But could it replace C?
I don't see that ever happening (in my lifetime).
C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete
(and very diverse) ecosystem.
C 'replacement wannabees', have to compete with both.
The only way I see C being replaced, is if all the C programmers
retire, or RIP, and don't sufficiently get replaced with new ones.
