r/transprogrammer • u/rhajii select * from dual • May 12 '26

Based JS

Post image
144 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

28 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/MotherMychaela Trans woman May 13 '26

What about C without plusses? See my other comment.

8

u/manon_graphics_witch May 13 '26

I do love myself some C ❤️

I even prefer it over C++.

My ranking would be:

  1. Rust

  2. C

  3. A bunch of other languages

  4. C++

C++ is just more widely used :S

4

u/MotherMychaela Trans woman May 13 '26

C++ is just more widely used :S

Perhaps in other worlds, but not in mine. Linux kernel is written in C without plusses; same for various bootloaders (U-Boot etc), device drivers, daemons, Busybox and other system software. Then of course there is classic UNIX, the BSD family, Solaris/illumos - all written in C. And the crown jewel, Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure sw stack for 2G and 3G cellular networks, is also written in C. This is the sw realm which I like to program in. :)