Comment by metaltyphoon
10 months ago
If other, safer language would have existed the same time as C, I don’t think it would have stood the time as you say.
10 months ago
If other, safer language would have existed the same time as C, I don’t think it would have stood the time as you say.
that's just hindsight. You can also argue the same for the dvorak keyboard vs qwerty. And yet, qwerty stood the test of time.
Momentum and legacy is hard to displace, when the new fangled thing attemping to be an improvement is not proven, and has unknown unknowns.
> that's just hindsight.
Is it? Do you think it's hindsight to use the only "successful" story as "the only way forward?" Look at the gas vs electric vehicles. Yes, displacing legacy is hard but not insurmountable when there is a clear improvement. I don't think anyone can argue in good faith the Rust is NOT an improvement in C.
Electric vehicles are also not a clear improvement over combustion engines. Which is why they need to be forced into use.
They did. But they were disregarded.