Linus Torvalds "Nothing better than C"

now i C

For each language its usecase. I would never use C for machine learning or web development. Comparing them is useless.

It all comes down to the assembly huh?

JavaScript is better

Torvalds created and maintains Linux, he is not an embedded engineer. He even says in this video that he's not good with hardware.

C is crap and bullshit. Rust is much better.

That is why python rocks, at upper languages…xD

Rust : I'm about to end this man's whole carrier

These are not all bad people. They are just extremely arrogant thinking they can play God. Same goes with the CIA, or what ever three letter word you want to insert here.

C is like a linking point between all other, higher, languages and assembly language.

but what about Rust?

Nothing better than Haskell… to develop apps. Nothing better than C… to deal with hardware

What about Rust?

C++

forth programmers mad…..lisp and ada and haskell nix shen scheme pharo mad!!!

dont even think about saying it

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Anybody who has done bare-metal coding for a microcontroller will soon come to realise the advantage C offers. Its not only abstracts the hardware architecture of an MCU, but also provides standard libraries for math, floating point, string processing, memory handling and so on. There truly is nothing better than C in this particular area, of low level interface to hardware. And vendors are constantly investing or supporting C compiler development for new processor and MCU architecture.

I love C but it's a shame it's not being developed and improved.

As somene who grew up writing assembly code for hardware drivers and OS code, C's ability to generate efficiant assemply for the h/w it's running on is very efficient. I keep having to remind newcomers that unless there's at least a magnature improvement in efficency or cost savings, leaping onto each new shiny thing which comes along is a fool's errand. The unnecessary curn developers inflict upon themseves usually ends up in failed projects and empty bank accounts.

My embedded systems professor once said, " I know assembly better than English".

Misleading title

Right on the money. This is why I did computer engineering instead of computer science.

What about Rust, isn't that supposed to be better than C as it prevents programmers from having memory leaks and data races?

C: print("I am looser") ;//in main
assembly:
. LC0
ascii "I am looser"

main:
movq .LC0(%rip), %rcx
call printf

ret

This guy is most followed person on github

i like crystal too

Guys, listen to him. C is great. But to use it properly, start with Assembly. First programming language for cs students/dev wannabes should be Assembly language.

Where is Rust buzz in the comments?

I wanted to design computer games in the early 2000's while in college…because I played them all the time in High School — but I found out I was too dumb and/or bored actually doing it.

Assembly language is faster

There's simply no single language that is "better" overall. Every programming language is simply a TOOL that has certain advantages, and disadvantages. Simply pick the tool that's best suited for the task.

It is a pretty average grade

if read tensorflow source code, you will think that python is harder than any other language.

But not better than HTML

Nothing better than taking the spark mechanism in lighters and using it on a processor to make it calculate

Rust ist better than C

Torvalds is well known for being opinionated, uncompromising, confrontational and (frankly) argumentative. But that is what he is SUPPOSED to be – Linux is his invention and he develops it in the way that HE wants. I fully respect that and I hope he continues to do so for many years to come. It's the finest and most stable OS in history and he is in great part responsible for that. Long Live LUNIX!

Linus:

hardware = from software prespective

software = from hadware prespective

fond of C++ myself, you can do C-ish style or add abstraction

What about Rust?

Such click bait

HTML is better :p

Aw shit, the entire Rust community is on suicide watch

I love C# as well

why not rust

C is good for low level programming but a decent macro assembler is better unless you want keep things cross platform (which for an OS designed to run on lots of different hardware is desirable)… The problem with C is it tried to get too big for its boots with the spec extensions and then C++ taking over… These are archaic platforms with a hideous syntax… the awful C syntax is OK for low level dev. as it only has to compete with assembly language but C and C++ have never been and never will be a good high level dev. plaform… Backwards, ugly, often too terse yet often too verbose and fiddly… so much boilerplate coding… so obfuscated to normal people… no runtime features.. All these languages put together by academic committees are sprawling messes…. and then the Open Peeps disintegrated everything with their splitting of languages into separate languages for the app internals, the database and the gui / markup…. This is a 'mess multiplier' and cost increaser… I'm OK with a separate markup 'language' but not Main Language X + SQL + GUI Library X + CSS, all using different, nonintegrated compilers and rutime engines

But what about D? It's one better, innit?

B, A, A+..

Call me old fashion, but I build a new fix program computer for any given task.