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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by FpUser on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:22PM (#24982977)
>"C was amazing when it was introduced"

It was not amazing. It was decent particular tool for particular job. That was all about it. Same thing about Rust. There are no silver bullets laying around.

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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by zepto on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:42PM (#24983190)
Whether you want to say it was amazing or not, it’s a legacy tool now.
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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:53PM (#24983864)
What do the cool kids use to write realtime or realtime-ish software with these days? What gets used for firmware? What gets used to write kernels? What gets used when you have to interact with hardware that uses memory mapped registers?

It might be C++ instead of C for some of the above, but that doesn't make C "a legacy tool".

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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by zepto on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:02PM (#24983933)
I’m not saying it isn’t used.

I’m saying it’s a legacy tool from the early 70’s that is absolutely terrible compared to what we could have.

Cool kids use it because there is no alternative.

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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by FpUser on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:41PM (#24984877)
It is not
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Re:DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linu... by zepto on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:53PM (#24985379)
Two words: Buffer overrun
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