{"id":9943,"date":"2022-12-23T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:10:22","slug":"why-modern-alternative-languages-never-replace-c-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2022\/12\/23\/why-modern-alternative-languages-never-replace-c-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Modern Alternative Languages Never Replace C\/C++"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"bk\" aria-hidden=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"1\" aria-labelledby=\"1\">\n<div class=\"ab q\">I must correct <a class=\"ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as\" href=\"https:\/\/shalithasuranga.medium.com\/?source=post_page-----cbf0afc5f1dc--------------------------------\" rel=\"noopener follow\">Shalitha Suranga<\/a> because while he correctly titled his article<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"ab q\"><em><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/levelup.gitconnected.com\/why-modern-alternative-languages-never-replace-c-c-cbf0afc5f1dc\">Why Modern Alternative Languages Never Replace C\/C++<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of C\/C++ alternatives will come, but C\/C++ will be with us forever!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He wrote all the reason why C will remain forever as a &#8220;portable assembler&#8221;. C++ is a complex language. A hugely complex language. Too complex to be a &#8220;foundation language&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I must correct Shalitha Suranga because while he correctly titled his article Why Modern Alternative Languages Never Replace C\/C++ Hundreds of C\/C++ alternatives will come, but C\/C++ will be with us forever! He wrote all the reason why C will remain forever as a &#8220;portable assembler&#8221;. C++ is a complex language. A hugely complex language.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2022\/12\/23\/why-modern-alternative-languages-never-replace-c-c\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-2An","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10303,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/12\/modern-c-replacements\/","url_meta":{"origin":9943,"position":0},"title":"Modern C replacements?","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-03-12","format":false,"excerpt":"These days I was just wondering if anyone has compiled a list of \"Modern C replacement\" languages when Slashdot almost read my mind: Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language - Slashdot Systems-oriented developers already have programming languages like C, C++, Rust, and Go, notes InfoWorld. 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