Comment by pdimitar
16 days ago
I remember why C stayed what it is at least: elitism and gatekeeping. And YAGNI, repeated millions of times, of which only the first few were correct.
You're telling me OCaml / Rust / Haskell compile to fairy pixie dust? Obviously their compilers figured it out and it works.
> I remember why C stayed what it is at least: elitism and gatekeeping.
If that was the goal, it failed horribly - the gatekeeping didn't work because the popularity exploded.
> You're telling me OCaml / Rust / Haskell compile to fairy pixie dust? Obviously their compilers figured it out and it works.
I said nothing of the sort.
You asked how sum types work in assembly. I'm telling you that at least 3 compilers figured that part out.
> You asked how sum types work in assembly.
No, I didn't - I asked how sum types were supposed to work in an era of 64KB memory systems.
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