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How many people code in C these days, and if so, why?

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bd139:
See my earlier rant. It’s dying on its arse. Even the stalwart C# guys are disenchanted. Not because of the platform but the complete mismanagement of it for 20 years.  Honestly wish I hadn’t wasted a chunk of my brain on it.

engrguy42:
Interesting. Looks like that survey of most popular is based on search engine results. C is the most searched for.

I don't suppose it's because the other languages are easier and more intuitive and don't require a lot of "WTF IS THIS C STUFF??" searches.   :-DD

floobydust:
Computing Science has failed to make a decent programming language.
Every language is intellectually orgasmic and the academics circle jerk off to them, but all fizzle out after many years, and then yet another language is born and the cycle repeats.

C is just a high-level assembly language, extremely dangerous because it really checks for nothing. Think of the all PC Trojans, viruses exe'd due to buffer overflows.
My CompSci Uni prof spent two weeks in class pissing around with pointers in C, seeing what would happen with "funky" de-referencing. It's worse than the Wild West.
Unfortunately C has made it to cars, airplances and other safety-critical applications for embedded systems. It's just too dangerous IMHO.

Just the other day I stumbled onto this:


--- Code: ---boolean myFlag;

myFlag = 2;
myFlag = "A";
myFlag = 3.14159;

--- End code ---

All of which of course compiles and runs in C. Absolute GARBAGE I hate dealing with this language, it needs to have some fixes that don't go all nutbar into C++ polymorphism, operator overloading etc. but people have given up and now it's Python as the latest fad language. Sigh.

coppice:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 09, 2020, 10:56:48 pm ---See my earlier rant. It’s dying on its arse. Even the stalwart C# guys are disenchanted. Not because of the platform but the complete mismanagement of it for 20 years.  Honestly wish I hadn’t wasted a chunk of my brain on it.

--- End quote ---
I haven't touched C# for some time. It wouldn't surprise me to find its being mismanaged. It was mostly created for political purposes, so its continued funding would depend on the success of that political ploy. What kind of mismanagement has there been? Poor compiler? Poor libraries?

bd139:

--- Quote from: coppice on May 09, 2020, 11:26:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 09, 2020, 10:56:48 pm ---See my earlier rant. It’s dying on its arse. Even the stalwart C# guys are disenchanted. Not because of the platform but the complete mismanagement of it for 20 years.  Honestly wish I hadn’t wasted a chunk of my brain on it.

--- End quote ---
I haven't touched C# for some time. It wouldn't surprise me to find its being mismanaged. It was mostly created for political purposes, so its continued funding would depend on the success of that political ploy. What kind of mismanagement has there been? Poor compiler? Poor libraries?

--- End quote ---

Best bet is hit my previous rant on it https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/how-many-people-code-in-c-these-days-and-if-so-why/msg3053124/#msg3053124

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