Re:C meeting is over. C23 added:
by eternityforest on Sunday February 20, 2022 @08:11AM
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The effort required to do anything besides low level utils in C is immense. And once you have it working, how do you know it's correct? You have to carefully review it.
You could write and rewrite everything multiple times in a high level language with that much work.
C libraries break all the time. They change them whenever they want. The standard lib and language might be stable but the large frameworks aren't.
It doesn't seem at all suitable for large application programs.
I do sometimes worry that one day my Python code won't run and 5 year projects will become useless. But so far, popular language aren't showing any sign of going away.
You could write and rewrite everything multiple times in a high level language with that much work.
C libraries break all the time. They change them whenever they want. The standard lib and language might be stable but the large frameworks aren't.
It doesn't seem at all suitable for large application programs.
I do sometimes worry that one day my Python code won't run and 5 year projects will become useless. But so far, popular language aren't showing any sign of going away.