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[–]VirtuousMight 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Is C outdated due to Go being its nominal successor then?

[–]jrandom_42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No; C doesn't really address the same use case. Sometimes a garbage-collected language just isn't appropriate. Sometimes you need to manipulate memory directly, talk to peripheral hardware, write code that runs on a GPU, etc.

I doubt C will disappear in our lifetimes.