this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
549 points (99.5% liked)

Programmer Humor

32150 readers
264 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah yes. A language forced onto unwilling participants by people who still think it should relevant in the modern age. And the other one is a Celtic language.

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

C will be relevant till the heat death of the universe. if humanity ever dooms itself back to the stone age, all it would require is some bloke to invent a rudimentary binary computer and some nerd to write a basic C compiler for it, humanity will doom itself again in less than 50 years.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, it's the only sane cross-language ABI option there is.

C++ is a close second, which is mostly because C++ uses the C ABI wherever it can.

Even if the language itself is obsolete, it will live on for many more years just because of that.