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badRNG • yesterday at 8:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages

Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a language itself written in C, or three isn't running on something written in C :)

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kgeist • today at 3:01 AM

If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get:

  C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C#

  C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby

  Self-hosted: Go, Rust
Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.
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psunavy03 • yesterday at 9:04 PM

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