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Re:The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free by wakawaka28 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @07:47PM (#41854253)
C and C++ are the bedrock of operating systems with the best performance and extensive support for all languages.

The only reason why iostreams are slow is because of its incompatible buffering scheme, and the fact that C and C++ need to stay in sync when linked together. And that brand of slow is still faster than other languages, except sometimes those that delegate i/o to pure C implementations.

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Re:The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free by pjmlp on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:22AM (#41856448)
Historical baggage, they weren't the first system programming languages, got lucky with UNIX's license allowing for widespread adoption, and won't be the last one standing either.
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Re:The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free by wakawaka28 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:35PM (#41862240)
Considering that they are evolving, I think they are more likely than not to stay standing. There might be other similar languages developed in parallel, but after over 30 years of whining C and C++ are still popular. I don't expect that to change.
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