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A comment on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009). Parent comment

Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by snovv_crash on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:20AM (#24459825)
Toolchains are one side, but garbage collection and big standard libraries are also a big reason. Anything with under a MB of RAM has a choice of several modern languages, but it is still basically just C, C++, Rust, Lua or MicroPython.
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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by mhh__ on Sunday September 13, 2020 @12:39PM (#24462021)
D works fine on microcontrollers.

I don't think anyone was going to write their fridge's code in Haskell anyway.

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