alt Hacker NewsYes, because C is, by virtue of its history and central role in the development of all mainstream operating systems, the lowest common denominator.
Also, if I remember correctly, the first Rust and Go compilers were written in C.
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zorobo • today at 3:55 AM
OCaml was used for rust.
Ygg2 • today at 5:52 AM
> Yes, because C is, by virtue of its history
Sure history is great and all, but in C it's hard to say reliably define this int is 64-bit wide, because of the wobbly type system. Plus, the whole historical baggage of not having 128-bit wide ints. Or sane strings (not null terminated).
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Yes! It's easy to see why we got here, but that doesn't mean it's the optimal outcome!