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[Marconi]

On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 14:14:34 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 13:55:50 UTC, Marconi wrote:
>> The fact that C still being used today is a clear sign that 
>> all language creators failed badly in not seeing the 
>> advantages of C, focused only on the disadvantages and 
>> exaggerated creating features that no one cares, creating too 
>> much possibilities of doing the same thing, getting only 
>> learning difficulties.
>
> Nonsense. C is still being used today simply because it is 
> deeply rooted in everything. All major operating systems today 
> are still largely done in C. Not to mention the libc being used 
> by literally every piece of modern software... Pick your 20 
> favourite pieces of opensource software that you use every day, 
> that are older than 5-6 years. - It is most likely that 18 of 
> them are entirely done in C.
>
> Example: nginx - think how many websites are running on top of 
> it. Similar story is Apache web server...

Why nonsense? I agree with you. C still runs the world, still the 
best programming language. We need just a better c, not more and 
more stuff.