amen zwa, esq. on Nostr: npub1qag4a…p9gyn Very true. Back in the 1980s, C was the only "reasonable" choice ...

npub1qag4apwpga64u32qkph92cetzfswcwgglcjg2txha3puzmgxwuws5p9gyn (npub1qag…9gyn) Very true. Back in the 1980s, C was the only "reasonable" choice for "most" projects. Today, the only "acceptable" choice for C is in tiny embedded software. I heard that even Linus—who said, "There's nothing better than C for Linux kernel development", is contemplating a switch to Rust.

I really like Go (in my view, a true successor to C). And npub1le9tuxl45nq885gwre5humcvv9axlalqqs7fe3khmp0ax3ucekrsjusf4t (npub1le9…sf4t) is perhaps the best for embedded work.

But sadly, we programmers don't get to pick the languages to do our work; our paymasters do.