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		skybrian on May 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything ... I'm not sure it's true that C programmers usually like C? I'm writing C++ code because that's what the Arduino ecosystem uses. It's hardly my favorite language. It seems like a lot of people choose languages due to ecosystem constraints?

ncmncm on May 3, 2022 [–]

Anywhere the choice of language is constrained like that, by definition the niche language will not be a viable alternative.

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