Comment by jstimpfle
4 hours ago
Productivity, portability, stability, mind-share, direct access to OS APIs... there's a lot of reasons to still use C.
4 hours ago
Productivity, portability, stability, mind-share, direct access to OS APIs... there's a lot of reasons to still use C.
Only if the OS is written in C, and has its APIs exposed as C APIs to userspace.
Quite a few OSes don't fit that rule.