D enters Tiobe top 20

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On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 10:21:16 UTC, Claude wrote:
> On Friday, 6 March 2020 at 15:27:27 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> I'm surprised C is still on second place. What can we do to 
>> kill it really?
>
> That does not surprise me, and I don't see C going anywhere in 
> the foreseeable future.
>
> It's the common denominator between native languages like C++, 
> D, Rust etc. And it interfaces with assembly-language. For 
> system programming, it's the obvious language: easy to grasp 
> and powerful. However, it's obviously not as expressive as like 
> C++, that's true.
>
> For example, Vulkan API is written in C, and it's a beautiful 
> API. If it had been written in C++ (or any other native 
> language), it would have been probably more expressive, but it 
> would have lost a lot in terms of efficiency.
>
> Another advantage of C is that, as it's a smaller language, 
> it's easier to enforce a coherent coding-style for a community 
> project.

A lot of languages also compiles to C before they implement 
compilation with ex. LLVM etc. because it's easier to do, faster 
to implement and supports mostly all platforms out of the box 
making it easy to test a language across platforms before you 
dive into compiling to machine code (because that's not easy to 
port.)