Nah there are a few classes of problems that I think are fun to solve in C. Mostly around making a portion of an app performant. I would not write a full app in C, but I have not been willing to do that for 2 decades.
I write mostly numerical linear algebra and can not agree more with this statement (at least for C – there’s some cool stuff with Eigen in C++). The advantages of the REPL/plotting/etc make it attractive to write in Python.
That said, speed is nice and there’s some interesting work with Julia. It’s fast, has a REPL/plotting.
You should use C if you’re writing an OS or system software.
If you’re asking the question, you probably aren’t. So use whatever language you want.
Depends on what you mean by system software. Languages like Ocaml are pretty capable of replacing C for a good chunk of systems problems.
And Rust, too! :-)
Does the author mean C and C++? Either way, welcome to 2015.
Ha! Well, the extent of my sophistication in C++ is templated classes so, not THAT much of a jump from C, but I take it you agree with the fun part?
Nah there are a few classes of problems that I think are fun to solve in C. Mostly around making a portion of an app performant. I would not write a full app in C, but I have not been willing to do that for 2 decades.
I write mostly numerical linear algebra and can not agree more with this statement (at least for C – there’s some cool stuff with Eigen in C++). The advantages of the REPL/plotting/etc make it attractive to write in Python.
That said, speed is nice and there’s some interesting work with Julia. It’s fast, has a REPL/plotting.
Why write in C? Because you want to do something in Lua, duh.