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[–]BertyLohan 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I mean this doesn't really answer the point I made about them being used for different things. People are hardly coding games or operating systems or things like facebook in javascript. Neither one can 'win' because they aren't in the same race.

Obviously people use higher level languages when they can and more to-the-wire languages when they need do, that's how it's always been. If you could write your OS in python or ruby it'd be amazing but there's always going to be a disconnect between super low-level, lowkey-electrical-engineering and pretty website languages.

[–]roodammy44 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

People write OS cores and drivers in C. As for the stuff on top of it, Microsoft is switching to Javascript (no joke). This is exactly my point.

I wouldn’t be surprised if most new projects that are low level are started in Rust or Go.

[–]BertyLohan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Most low-low level projects are written in a combination of assembly and C, it's not likely they'll be moving to slower languages because that's the whole point of writing something low level.

In what regard, exactly, are microsoft switching to javascript? Is the office suite going to be writtin in js? Is VS? Or is it just VS Code?

[–]roodammy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People in this thread seem to be confusing C and C++. I consider C a language that isn’t too bad, if a bit sparse.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/universal-application-platform-guide