Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      8 days ago

      C is currently the best-known programming language in the world

      By what metric? It’s certainly not the most popular language. I don’t think it’s the most famous language either. Probably more people have heard of Python than C.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          3·
          8 days ago

          Let me ask a question, then: why were the Linux kernel and the Linux ecosystem written in C rather than Python?

          … because C is a systems langauge that you can use to build a kernel? While Python is an interpreted runtime that cannot target bare-metal?

          Rust can easily take the place of C, as Rust can also target bare-metal. It can do everything that C can do (perhaps aside from compiling to some very esoteric platforms). The reason Linux is written in C is cause C was the best option at the time, not because C is some magical language that can do stuff that no other language can.

          Also, just because Linux was written in C doesn’t mean it is the best-known, most famous or most widely used language. Python is much more well-known and widely used than C.