The long goodbye to C

2017 by Eric Raymond, "I was thinking a couple of days ago about the new wave of systems languages now challenging C for its place at the top of the systems-programming heap - Go and Rust, in particular. I reached a realization – I have 35 years of experience in C. I write C code pretty much every week, but I can no longer remember when I last started a new project in C!

If this seems completely un-startling to you, you’re not a systems programmer. Yes, I know there are a lot of you out there beavering away at much higher-level languages. But...

2017 by Eric Raymond, "I was thinking a couple of days ago about the new wave of systems languages now challenging C for its place at the top of the systems-programming heap - Go and Rust, in particular. I reached a realization – I have 35 years of experience in C. I write C code pretty much every week, but I can no longer remember when I last started a new project in C!

If this seems completely un-startling to you, you’re not a systems programmer. Yes, I know there are a lot of you out there beavering away at much higher-level languages. But...