Re:The cost of forsaking C
by solidsnack9000 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:37PM
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I think the strongest thing in C's favor is that it is an extremely simple language, so it's easy to port and easy to write (semi-broken) compilers for. A language like C++, D or Rust, being more complicated, can take longer to provide ports for.
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Re:The cost of forsaking C
by Manishearth on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:54PM
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All three of those languages have at least one compiler with an llvm backend, so writing ports should be as hard as C. Perhaps easier, since you don't actually have to write a parser for anything, just an IR->asm pass.