alt Hacker News> Every system under the Sun has a C compiler... My guess is that C will be around long after people will have moved on from Rust to another newfangled alternative.
This is still the worst possible argument for C. If C persists in places no one uses, then who cares?
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You almost certainly have a bunch of devices containing a microcontroller that runs an architecture not targeted by LLVM. The embedded space is still incredibly fragmented.
That said, only a handful of those architectures are actually so weird that they would be hard to write a LLVM backend for. I understand why the project hasn’t established a stable backend plugin API, but it would help support these ancillary architectures that nobody wants to have to actively maintain as part of the LLVM project. Right now, you usually need to use a fork of the whole LLVM project when using experimental backends.
I think you didn't catch their drift
C will continue to be used because it always has been and always will be available everywhere, not only places no one uses :/