On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 18:15:10 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Even if that isn't the case, the only thing C is good at
currently is embedded devices low on RAM, device drivers and
being a portable assembler.
For everything else, there are better alternatives.
Portable libraries. It is a stable design that most languages can
interface with, so you can generally not go wrong by writing
libraries in C.
It is a pity that some cool libraries are C++ only (like 3D
physics), but maybe automatic source-to-source translation can do
well sometime in the future.
