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Well-known programmer Eric S. Raymond (ESR) recently published an article about the gradual decline of C and the emergence of other languages to replace it.
After 35 years of using C, ESR says it has found an alternative language to C. Until then, there had been no successor to C, and no real vision of a post-C technology platform for system programming, but now there are two, three to be exact. In addition to the Go and Rust languages mentioned in this article, a new language, tentatively called “Cx,” was written by a friend of the author.
Much of today’s code is written in languages other than C, the authors write, and while it is unfortunate, C’s position is being undermined.
It also introduces a historical review of programming languages after 1982, when the major programming languages (FORTRAN, Pascal and COBOL) were limited to legacy code and relied on inertia in the face of increasing pressure at the edge of the C region.
Do you agree or disagree with the author’s opinion?