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Comment by mbac32768

3 hours ago

Could you name two of these that are important to you?

Android, userspace is Java, and what is exposed on the NDK is a tiny portion.

iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, the large majority of userspace APIs is based on Objective-C, or Swift, bare bones C is only available for the POSIX leftovers.

For the Plan 9 geeks, Inferno, OS APIs is exposed via Limbo.

For folks that still find mainframes and micros cool, IBM i, IBM z/OS, Unisys ClearPath MCP, Unisys OS 2200.

For retrogaming folks, most 8 and 16 bit home computers.

Or even one. I know there are operating systems in use that are not written in C, but the major ones are written in C. And anyways, it's not just the OS. There's a pile of C code. Fil-C is a fantastic idea. I think Fil is going to make it good enough to use in production, and I badly want to use it in production.