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jstimpfleyesterday at 9:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Productivity, portability, stability, mind-share, direct access to OS APIs... there's a lot of reasons to still use C.


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pjmlpyesterday at 9:33 PM

Only if the OS is written in C, and has its APIs exposed as C APIs to userspace.

Quite a few OSes don't fit that rule.