2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says Tiobe

Re:2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says T... by clktmr on Sunday January 12, 2020 @08:54AM (#22026263)

Even if it's possible, the change is not worth it.

Transcribing leads to a horrible debug experience. Immature languages maintained by a single/few are a no-go. Your team already knows C and is good at it, finding new programmers is easy.

You don't want another language, even if it's supported by GCC. If you want anything from C, then it's more safety guarantees. And C is flexible enough to run a better type system on top of it, e.g. look at what the kernel community is doing with `sparse`.

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Re:2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says T... by ncmncm on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:52AM (#22033622)

If you want to use C, use C.

But to insist there is no alternative is just untrue, and (after you have been corrected) dishonest.

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Re:2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says T... by clktmr on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:00PM (#22039709)

We were talking about viable alternatives.

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Re:2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says T... by ncmncm on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:48PM (#22051828)

As I said.

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