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Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by pjmlp on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:33AM (#30397392)
Neither, unless we are speaking of kernel and drivers kind of systems programming, in which case I would pick Rust.

For anything else, a language with automatic memory management.

Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by Koshkin on Saturday February 19, 2022 @12:47PM (#30398922)
I wish D was more widely used, as it seems to be good as a systems language, too.
Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by pjmlp on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:40PM (#30399351)
Me too, unfortunately the lack of focus has allowed the competition to step in, so at this point it is hard to tell what would be the killer application that can make it take off.