On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 03:18:27 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 02:15:27 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat
wrote:
C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete
(and very diverse) ecosystem.
No progress has been made for decades but that doesn't mean
progress is impossible.
C has a very large and diverse ecosystem exactly thanks to "no
progress". Each and every compatibility breaking change in the
language flushes a part of the ecosystem down the toilet.
So the recipe for success is to get most of the things right from
the very beginning (this is partly based on skill and partly
based on luck). And then try to avoid breaking changes as much as
possible. C language is a great example of this.
