On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, at 05:21, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > C is not "suckless" based on the above ides: > * C is not minimal; (I understand "why" it is not minimal, but this > is besides the point;) > * C is not as usable as other languages; (how many times have we as > developers rewritten linked-lists? how would one describe using a > hash-map library in C?) > * C code is not "clear"; (just having `void *` as structure members > and callback arguments, using `int` as "descriptors", etc.;) > * C code is complex; (try concatenating a few strings together;)
I've been on this list a few years too. I completely agree with these criticisms of C. On the other hand, higher level languages than C that overcome these particular problems have other problems, so I don't know of a great alternative. Shell scripting with rc is a pretty good higher level language, for its special purpose, but of course its scope is limited.
