Macleod Sawyer on Nostr: nprofile1q…nwfh6 We could have had a thousand different types of implementations to ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqp4u3648u4vf853lcpauag94aa00vm3d2kk5y6ekcuzr0eu6sjhhsmnwfh6 (nprofile…wfh6) We could have had a thousand different types of implementations to interact with assembly, and we do, but everyone defaults to C because it's there, warts and all (I say that as someone who loves C, but realizes its kind of a mess and horribly designed).

C is only the most esteemed language because it's been optimized in the background in insane ways to make up for the fact that's its rather poorly designed.