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> It's 2025, people have to give up on C/C++.

No, people should not give up on C.

???

You do realize there are a lot of projects written in C, right? Including Linux and most of its programs / utilities that you may be using.

I have new projects written in C, too, and you can do a lot to check for potential bugs using various flags to GCC / Clang, among other things like cppcheck and the rest.

No, people should not give up on C. C is really good to know, for many reasons... even if you are not going to use it.



I believe GP meant that the idea of C/C++ should be abandoned, that is, that C and C++ are compatible languages. GP thinks that they should diverge more when necessary, none of them should be held back for the compatibility with the other.


Well, I agree with that.




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