Comment by fasterik
7 hours ago
I'm pretty sure most big software projects (Windows, Linux, Chrome, gcc, LLVM, AAA game engines, ...) are still writing a lot of new C and C++. Pretty much everyone in the embedded world is as well.
As a solo programmer, I still prefer C and C++. In fact, as I've incorporated LLMs in to my workflow, I've been increasingly drawn toward C and its simplicity. A lot of the QoL features of C++ simply aren't needed when you're writing less code manually.
Using LLMs to write C feels a little silly to me. (Unless you really need C.) LLMs are still imperfect; you're still going to get a lot of UB bugs like human-authored C.
Chrome should be ported to Rust long ago. on Windows, half of the UI can migrate tomorrow with ease.
With the ram shortage they could start by removing all the web-views that should have been native