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		sramsay 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.... I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 2025. I have never seen a language with a better ffi into C than C.

lmm 89 days ago [–]

> the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based

What massive, maintained set is that? Base Unix is tiny, and any serious programming ecosystem has good alternatives for all of it.

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