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Comment by badRNG

16 hours ago

> Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages

Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a language itself written in C, or three isn't running on something written in C :)

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kgeist  10 hours ago

If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get:

  C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C#

  C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby

  Self-hosted: Go, Rust

Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.

  • pjmlp  2 hours ago

    Java and C# compilers are selfhosted.

    Then depending on which JVM implementation we are talking about the actual JVM runtime can be Java, C, or C++, or a mix of them.

    Modern C compilers are written in C++.

    Rust uses LLVM, written in C++.