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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by raincole on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:39PM (#50487849)
All the programming languages that didn't already have enough inertia when Claude Code came out will be irrelevant.
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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by mglvsky on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:07PM (#50488252)
But... but... they said about so powerful AGI/ASI, and turns out it needs "inertia"/support data and cannot improvise via any isoteric language or write directly machine code.

Poor AI

/s

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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by raincole on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:29PM (#50488515)
Yeah, I think AI-generated assembly/machine code will be more and more common. The human-oriented programming language popularity ranks will be pretty much "fixed" from 2025 onwards.

No /s

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