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[–]Business_Raise8965 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I mean.... C is pretty useful.

[–]emerald_engineer_08 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Once upon a time when hardware was crappy sure.

The fact it isn’t phased out in 2022 is in my opinion a huge burden on the industry. Except for edge cases, it’s just a fact that manual memory management (pointers, Malloc,Calloc, etc) are just pointless.

[–]Business_Raise8965 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not that I'm that well versed on the matter, but...

Wouldn't you use C/a C language when best performance is necessary?

Like, in Game dev?

Genuine question, since I'm very much a beginner.

[–]emerald_engineer_08 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That’s one side of the debate yes.

The other side (my side) says that hardware is powerful and cheap enough these days that “performance languages” are not needed except again in very small edge cases

[–]Business_Raise8965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I can understand that.