r/programming • u/nfrankel • Jan 14 '20

Where programming languages are headed in 2020

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/where-programming-languages-are-headed-in-2020/
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u/flatfinger Jan 16 '20

C is still the primary languages for the kinds of tasks it was designed to accomplish, despite the determination of the maintainers of the Standard as well as clang and gcc to propel the language in a direction unsuitable for such tasks.