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I made a whole bunch of things that have not been deprecated or tech debt. It's about which technologies you use.

C is not deprecated. Maybe in a 100 years it will be, but it seems unlikely.

It's very rare to find someone who has C as their favourite language, but it's incredibly persistent.

C is the opposite of the latest JS framework.

I regularly fix bugs in open source, where when checking when the bug was introduced the trail often runs cold in the mid to early 90s, as it predates that project's use of source control.

But yeah, if you have a 20 year career of following what is clearly the latest fad, then you'll have that experience.

Java applets were never "big". They were a fad, and promise of big. But they always sucked, even by the standards at the time.



> It's very rare to find someone who has C as their favourite language

Hello, I visit here every day. Nice to meet you


You should make friends with Steve Gibson (https://www.grc.com/). He writes all his code is assembly. :-)


Don't worry, I personally know plenty of devs whose favourites are assembly, C, C++, Pascal, Perl... even BASIC, Fortran, COBOL or Forth!

And surprisingly enough, among them, even the old farts aren't so old.


Bah, as someone who until recently had C++ as favorite language (now Rust), I'd say C++ doesn't belong on that list!

But so say probably all those people too, about "their" language. ;-)




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