Linux creator Linus Torvalds: C is king for OS development because if you think like a computer, writing C actually makes sense.

Come on. C is fine for what it is and was. But it''s fundamentally flawed. Programmer skill issue has proven to be poor attribution.

if the computer is a PDP-11 maybe

Linus can see the matrix code, as suspected

With what happened with Microsoft yesterday, many programmers are gonna advocate for using a memory safe pl for OS development. But I don't think that C/C++ is to blame! We, the current generation of programmers, don't live up to the standards of legends like Dennis Ritchie et al

matter of fact I started learning C coz this clip popped up in my feed on yt

Very cool perspective 💪

And so came Rust into the Linux kernel.

IMO the problem with C isn't its fundamental design choices but just all the accumulated cruft. the ISO standard is very wishy-washy on what it specifies and what it doesn't. There are "dangerous, never use" functions still in the standard library (gets, strtok, sprintf)

"when I read C I know what the assembly language will look like" Ahh, geek talk of the highest order... int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { (C == "best_language_ever") ? printf("Yay\n") : goto _boo; exit(0); _boo: printf("Piss off!\n"); exit(1); } I used to be a geek..

Zig is C made convenient