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The best love letters are written in C (apologies to the Rust fans) (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a rust fan I can say:

Don't be sorry, cause the code is in C!
Be sorry for what you did in C!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, of course it wouldn't be fair to expect everyone to be migrated over yet, but at some point it's going to be an obsolete language. Memory unsafety is a pretty nasty quirk; just one that was previously unavoidable, as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

at some point it’s going to be an obsolete language.

Yeah, COBOL went the way of the dodo too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. COBOL still gets used in legacy stuff, but at this point you'd have to be either insane or a historical re-enactor to build something new in it.

I've used C more than anything else, for reference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

COBOL is on my to-learn list...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I really want to build and learn to use a medieval-style pole lathe.