From: Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
To: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Is C obsolete? (was Re: [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 21:08:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGGBd_qkpq9Bt6_zsKmPASunGJd-YJyYeQnPGeTn2vcf6WW9bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YOJDIn6Hj01Hnwp3@clarinet.employees.org>
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On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 4:33 PM Derek Fawcus <
dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Andy Kosela wrote:
> > They also think that C is obsolete
>
> I'd not say it is obsolete, but despite it having been my main language
> for the
> last 30 years, these days I would be inclined to restrict the range of new
> tasks
> I'd use it for.
>
Me too - I write far fewer things in C today than I once did. Last time I
used C, it was for something that needed mlockall() and very minimalist OS
dependencies. And the client was in Python - only the server was in C.
I think Rust is probably the better language, even though Go is ahead of it
in the Tiobe language popularity rankings. Go is more like what most
people are accustomed to, but Rust is a genuine advancement in language
design that justifies "fighting the borrow checker".
On the other hand, I did a little comparison of Rust md5 (I know, it's
broken) implementations, and found them surprisingly slow. Slower than
CPython - though CPython is just linking to OpenSSL, and OpenSSL is
probably using hand-coded assembler, or at least highly optimized C.
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Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-02 21:24 [TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-02 21:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-02 21:56 ` Henry Bent
2021-07-02 23:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-07-02 23:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-03 13:34 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-03 13:56 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-03 12:04 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-07-03 13:20 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-03 17:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-03 17:57 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-03 18:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-03 20:02 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-04 0:47 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-07-04 4:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-04 14:56 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-04 16:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-04 20:10 ` David Barto
2021-07-05 0:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-05 1:23 ` John Cowan
2021-07-04 12:48 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-05 7:14 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-07-05 16:26 ` John Cowan
2021-07-06 23:17 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-07-06 23:47 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-07-06 23:49 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-06 23:48 ` John Cowan
2021-07-07 0:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-07 0:58 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-07 2:48 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-07 18:32 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-07-07 20:50 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-08 6:46 ` [TUHS] Overgrown ffox (was: The Unix shell: a 50-year view) Tomasz Rola
2021-07-08 13:59 ` Derek Fawcus
2021-07-08 19:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-08 19:37 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-08 20:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-08 22:23 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-07-08 21:47 ` [TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-09 20:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-07 13:54 ` Tony Finch
2021-07-06 16:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-09 22:19 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-07-04 20:10 ` Tony Finch
2021-07-05 3:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-05 15:08 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-05 3:52 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-04 18:17 ` John Dow via TUHS
2021-07-04 19:46 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 1:33 ` Noel Hunt
2021-07-05 2:38 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 2:51 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-05 3:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 5:22 ` Noel Hunt
2021-07-06 5:10 ` Nevin Liber
2021-07-06 13:30 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-06 16:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-07-07 1:57 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-07 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-07 5:19 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-07-07 18:28 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-10 11:51 ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2021-07-10 13:54 ` Henry Bent
2021-07-10 14:12 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-07-10 16:57 ` [TUHS] Death by bug [formerly The Unix shell: a 50-year view] Jon Steinhart
2021-07-11 8:53 ` [TUHS] Death by bug Ralph Corderoy
2021-07-11 9:04 ` arnold
2021-07-12 1:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-12 2:57 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-12 6:39 ` arnold
2021-07-12 9:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-07-11 16:10 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-12 10:37 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-07-06 13:40 ` [TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view John Cowan
2021-07-06 14:12 ` Chet Ramey
2021-07-07 0:53 ` Nevin Liber
2021-07-07 13:08 ` Chet Ramey
2021-07-07 15:15 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-03 0:09 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-07-03 15:49 ` Andy Kosela
2021-07-04 23:24 ` [TUHS] Is C obsolete? (was Re: [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view) Derek Fawcus
2021-07-04 23:50 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-07-05 0:15 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-05 0:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-05 2:36 ` John Cowan
2021-07-05 2:59 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-05 3:47 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-05 4:02 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-05 13:45 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-05 20:15 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-05 21:05 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-05 21:29 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 22:22 ` Brantley Coile
2021-07-06 4:35 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-06 4:44 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-06 5:58 ` Rico Pajarola
2021-07-06 13:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-05 12:11 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-07-05 4:08 ` Dan Stromberg [this message]
2021-07-05 4:23 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-05 14:43 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-05 15:17 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-05 15:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-07-05 15:53 ` Mike Markowski
2021-07-05 16:39 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-05 19:02 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-02 22:27 ` [TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view Chet Ramey
2021-07-02 23:09 ` Steve Nickolas
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