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The best love letters are written in C (apologies to the Rust fans) (fedia.io)
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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

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

Yeah, COBOL went the way of the dodo too.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

COBOL is on my to-learn list...

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

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

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