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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by pjmlp on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:43AM (#30425462)
Except that breaks outside non PDP-11 CPU, where many languages offer the same "low level" capabilities of C.

Or 8 bit CPUs like 6502 and Z80 that aren't even able to fully support C.

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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by inkyoto on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:57AM (#30428667)
6502 and Z80 had not existed yet when C was begot for the PDP-11 architecture.

Yes – historically – C has never been a perfect fit for 8-bit architectures as it had been conceived for a 16-bit architecture. So what? There are C compilers for 68HC08 68HC11 MCU's as well.

Yet, C has outlived «many languages offering the same "low level" capabilities of C».

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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by pjmlp on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:11AM (#30429620)
The reasons for its survival cross many axis, it wasn't just for the language alone on its own.
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