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Stop comparing programming languages

  • Python is versatile
  • JavaScript is powerful
  • Ruby is elegant
  • C is essential
  • C++
  • Java is robust
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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 11 points 4 months ago

What is C essential for anymore these days? Genuine question btw.

I thought C++ was essential for microprocessor control, but that it depends and sometimes I gather people use C instead, but not always.

Use the language that the company hires you to know:-).

[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

I do embedded. Its all C. You can't replace it.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago
[-] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Wait, that's like C with ~~extra~~ fewer steps

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Inertia is a mofo. I did embedded programming for industrial automation almost thirty years ago, building upon and expanding an existing nightmare of C code... and I bet there's still some of mine running something out there to this day.

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