Scott Williams 🐧 on Nostr: Here's some hard truth about C - It's not going away. It's not that it's perfect, but ...
Here's some hard truth about C - It's not going away. It's not that it's perfect, but it is immensely portable and useful. More importantly, no other #programming language has come close to its ubiquity. I'm not saying other languages don't do some things better (they definitely do!), but we're going to be stuck with C for a while yet.
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