Re:C Isn't a Language
by SkiFire13 on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:02AM
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You're still thinking of C as a programming language but the blogpost is not about this, it's about using C to describe interfaces between other languages.
> because it is the most minimal way of speaking to the hardware in a mostly portable way.
C is not really the most minimal way to do so, and a lot of C is not portable anyway unless you want to become mad. It's just the most minimal and portable thing that we settled on. It's "good enough" but it still has a ton of resolvable problems.
> because it is the most minimal way of speaking to the hardware in a mostly portable way.
C is not really the most minimal way to do so, and a lot of C is not portable anyway unless you want to become mad. It's just the most minimal and portable thing that we settled on. It's "good enough" but it still has a ton of resolvable problems.