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[Claude]

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.