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[–] Norodix@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I do embedded. Its all C. You can't replace it.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, that's like C with ~~extra~~ fewer steps

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago
[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Inertia is a mofo. I did embedded programming for industrial automation almost thirty years ago, building upon and expanding an existing nightmare of C code... and I bet there's still some of mine running something out there to this day.