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Re:I love coding in C by matheusmoreira on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:54PM (#21885463)
Besides embedded applications, C is important because it has a simple binary interface. Libraries written in C can be used in any other language. This is not true for higher level languages, whether compiled or virtualized.
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Re:I love coding in C by pjmlp on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:29AM (#21890950)
Only on OSes written in C, because C ABI is the OS ABI.

On Windows any language able to speak COM can use it, regardless what language was used to create the COM component.

Same applies to mainframes and their language environments.

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Re:I love coding in C by tekknik on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:51AM (#21891954)
you can actually call golang from C but you have to copy values over otherwise the go garbage collector will free it while the C side may still be using it.
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