Posts by geofflangdale@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B7nFXDoKZYCHVA8wxE by geofflangdale@mastodon.social
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       @regehr It feels like an really uninspiring inflection point where I can't argue for C but I see tons of problems in everything else. For me C is "falling between two chairs" at the moment - thanks to the giant festival of UB from people trying to coax peak performance from C for "optimized" usages it doesn't feel like a reliable systems language, but it also sucks at scale due to being so rudimentary.A lot of newer alternatives don't have the mindshare so I think it would be ...
       
 (DIR) Post #B7nFXEEuyhSqpcaBOb by geofflangdale@mastodon.social
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       @regehr very bumpy to be at a BigCo or a broad reach open source project and demand everyone know Rust/Zig/Odin/whatever.Uncomfortably, I feel like as the niche gets smaller (fewer and fewer people need to program in a 'systems' language) the options get worse and less appealing. I wish there was a language with "high" and "low" variants that preserved as much syntax/tooling/... as possible but allowed both a barebones systems programming and a convenience "scale" programming.