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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by flohofwoe on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:12AM (#36654193)
Interesting choice, but Ada is probably even less popular than Zig.

Even just requiring users to integrate my hypophetical Ada library source distribution into their project's build system files would most likely drown me in support tickets ;)

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by pjmlp on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:04PM (#36658319)
It certainly has more production deployments than Zig might ever get.
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