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Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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Programming · 2 months ago

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Well COBOL hasn’t completely gone away… I don’t think anyone expects C to become completely extinct; just very legacy.

D missed its chance. Zig is clearly going to be the successor to C, for people who don’t want to use Rust.

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