alt Hacker News> Back in the day, your compiler or assembler would turn each source file into an “object” file containing the compiled code.
Lots and lots of code is still C and C++. That's not really "back in the day".
> Back in the day, your compiler or assembler would turn each source file into an “object” file containing the compiled code.
Lots and lots of code is still C and C++. That's not really "back in the day".
I'd be very surprised if the C/C++ code being written today was comparable in volume to the collective pile of JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Python, and PHP.
Contrast to the heyday of C and C++ when not much else got a look in (Pascal perhaps? Perl probably...)
I think it's fair.