C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by nordsieck on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:25PM (#24456787)

> C code is being replaced by Rust fast.

One of the key areas C is used that Rust cannot be used easily is in limited embedded devices. That looks like it'll be the case for at least 10 years and probably much longer than that.

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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by sam_bristow on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:32PM (#24457174)

The embedded Rust ecosystem is actually pretty vibrant these days. The number and quality of #![no_std] crates is improving rapidly.

The main limitation is going to be if your MCU is supported by LLVM. If you're targetting ARM, RISC-V, MSP430 or Xtensa you might get further than you'd expect.

There's a hell of a lot of tooling built around C though. So nomatter what happens I don't think we'll ever be rid of it.

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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by rleigh on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:43AM (#24460789)

Many, if not most, small MCUs can also run C++ these days as just as well as C. If you want to write simpler and more robust applications, it's easily achievable.

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