{"id":58900,"date":"2022-11-07T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=855966723bc0e9f30fff4c52565d2ec0"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:42:16","slug":"c-isnt-a-programming-language-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58900","title":{"rendered":"C isn&#8217;t a programming language anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/faultlore.com\/blah\/c-isnt-a-language\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The language-agnostic platform bindings problem is a _huge problem_. \n\nC is a horrible tool for it, but no one has ever really come up with something better, in large part because the higher-level langues that have a hard time with it...just punt the details to the platform, who has (in almost all modern OSes) defined them in C.  \n\nIt _is_ fun to think about what else we could do.  The interfaces could be a declarative description language with a easier to deal with parser (if a thousand legacy systems and all new ones agreed to do a bunch of extra work to make that happen). The interfaces (at a cost of massive implementation complication and performance penalty) could be an interrogatable message-passing interface (think dbus).  Etc.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33509223\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}