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checker659today at 4:44 AM1 replyview on HN

OS kernels? Everything from numpy to CUDA to NCCL is using C/C++ (doing all the behind the scene heavy lifting), never mind the classic systems software like web browsers, web servers, networking control plane (the list goes on).


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lmmtoday at 4:56 AM

Newer web servers have already moved away from C/C++.

Web browsers have been written in restricted subsets of C/C++ with significant additional tooling for decades at this point, and are already beginning to move to Rust.

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