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Re:OS X app in plain C by jimjimjim on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:28PM (#11639432)
agree.

If this was an enterprise/cio/it/gov discussion web site then all the conversations would be java and .net vs c++

if this was a scientific computing website then python, c/c++ and fortran and would be mentioned etc.

if this was a hardware/firmware website it would be c vs (whatever black magic is used by hardware wizards).

Re:OS X app in plain C by austinz on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:08PM (#11639675)
VHDL vs Verilog flame wars everywhere. Also, discussions on people's favorite idiosyncratic, vendor-specific dialect of C for embedded devices.
Re:OS X app in plain C by chillingeffect on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:27PM (#11639785)
Gah, this. Also noobs who want to "replace their 2,000 device-per-year microcontroller application with an FPGA so that it can someday be put onto a ASIC." They're basically vinyl hipsters who fancy themselves "EE/chip designerz" and want to immortalize themselves.