Re: Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift Says To Not Write Security Critical Code In C/C++

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 09:36:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
You said it yourself that to get performance from C you need 
extensions, it's not provided by C semantics itself.

No? I said I write "cpu independent simd" in my core 
performance oriented loop as a starting point.

I mean this:

On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:11:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
Here's the deal: there is no such thing as a general purpose 
(system) language in the empirical sense. We might have been 
lead to believe that C or C++ were general purpose, but that 
only happend because there were no visible viable alternatives. 
C is more and more becoming a kernel/embedded language, C++ is 
more and more becoming a legacy/niche language. C++ is only a 
game dev language after you add various extensions (e.g. simd). 
It is only a number-crunching language after you add some other 
extensions.