Companies will follow recommendations, but independent C programmers must not follow them. Time will show us. But I believe C will never die.
Hare has an IRC official channel, but not all have IRC and want to use it. I think that using matrix space/rooms can add life to the Hare community.
Almost all what is going on today in commercial development is based on knowing frameworks and existing libraries and is far from engineering. I am working in that 19 years and also feel that am not a true engineer, at least at my job. Yes, I developed my own UI client framework, but who know it, who need it except my company... I am not in the 5% of top world engineers. And you know what I think, I do not care. Do f#$*k off, commercial development. I have hobbies, I learn languages that I like and writing code just for fun, solving problems on codewars. I believe that true thech like C and freebsd, emacs and some other not popular in commercial development programming languages is my way. And yes, I am earning money at my job, but at the same time, as I said, I tell all these overhyped shit "do f#@&k off" and going my own way. That's my life. Have a luck, bro. Find your own path.
Why did you forgot Nim? Is it a player?
Thank you for answer. You helped me.
I have 20 years of full-time job and looking for time for a hobby. Firstly it was a hobby also, but now I am bored with making the same project for 16 years, I want to try other fields, and learning new tech is my hobby.
Nim has beautiful syntax. But does it has a lot of tools?
Thank you for your answer. There are a lot of startups and good open repos in Rust nowadays and it seems this intention will only grow. Finally, only community and business preferences define how much cool staff will be made with programming language. I do not like the hype around Rust and like the simplicity of the C syntax. And I think we need to use languages for their appointments. Learn Rust, learn C, and use them in different projects. Switching between technologies helps avoid burnout and learn new things to keep your interest fresh.
Why am I creating these posts? Not because I want to sabotage the infrastructure or do not recognize new technologies and programming languages. Undoubtedly, new languages must appear and they must compete, because this is a natural process, of evolution. I just want to understand the mood of the C community itself. It's lukewarm on this platform. Nobody is against new languages, and they can be used together with C or as an alternative. But here we are talking about a complete replacement. So, working with memory directly is the job of whom? The chosen ones? The units that will sit behind the compilers? What about the rest? Only fulfill commercial orders? Is this engineering? Is this programming?
I look at how programming has changed over the course of 25 years, what they teach at universities, and where they start. And I came to the conclusion that on a large scale, it was all for the benefit of giant companies or the government.
We must protect the “intimate” knowledge of the foundations and water the roots ourselves. Because they don’t realize, they don’t see that if the roots are not watered, the branches on which they sit will dry out. Therefore, who, if not us? Thanks, everyone!
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