alt Hacker NewsI'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.
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happyweasel • today at 12:15 PM
hmm how can I reuse this useful Go library in python... Oh I can't.. hmm and how can I reuse this useful java library in php ? Oh I can't. Oh and which of the programming languages you mentioned can and do use C libraries? All of them.
Reminds me of that coworker who thought that OpenCV was basically written in python.
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Yes, surely much more code is being written in other languages than in C, but probably more C is being written now than ever before, too.