>A library written in C can be used by anyone else.
This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows, and this wasn't true on Windows until linux compatibility was developed on it.
>If you're one of the very many people who look down their noses at C and want to get rid of it, do your part.
convincing linus and sysadmin greybeards to modernize linux and is no small task, until then we'll all still be just be scripting over archaic C apis
The popular narratives that 5th generation computing, expert systems, etc failed to deliver because it was the 'wrong path' to take is bs, basically the hardware designers weren't used to non-turing architectures, it was hard to find (and hire) programmers that fully understood both non-imperative paradigms and hardware integration, and government funded science (outside of black budget defense and intelligence projects) education and research started taking a nosedive during the 80s.
This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows, and this wasn't true on Windows until linux compatibility was developed on it.
>If you're one of the very many people who look down their noses at C and want to get rid of it, do your part.
convincing linus and sysadmin greybeards to modernize linux and is no small task, until then we'll all still be just be scripting over archaic C apis
"science progresses one funeral at a time"