C is modern hippy-dippy shit, let's go back to the only good compiled language: FORTRAN

Was this thing generated by a poorly trained LLM?

Why stop at programming languages? Let's scrap everything invented in the last 50 years!

ok but C kinda sucks for high level shit.

if i want to scrape a website, all i have to do in python is use requests.get

If I went back to the early days of C, it would be because John Connor sent me there in a time machine to destroy the first compiler before it could become self-hosting

Why do computers become more and more powerful, but programs continue to lag?

Because instead of taking advantage of hardware to push boundaries in what we can accomplish, it's exploited so you can turn everything into its own instance of Chromium, with all the bloat and overhead that entails, for the world's simplest application. Even on mobile, where power consumption is allegedly important.

The industry spends so much time reinventing wheels and shoehorning things into each other, instead of doing anything... useful. Can't have a normal web page anymore because waaaah page loads, gotta be SPA, then you gotta reinvent all the stuff that you threw out to make an SPA - probably in the form of several dozen libraries, all of which also keep getting reinvented every other week. What's that, the SPA is now a 4GB download and seven orders of magnitude slower than the page loads it was supposedly meant to avoid? Lol who cares. Put some more layers of transpiled javascript in there anyway. Keeping up with the NPM dependencies alone is now 40% of the manpower in the corporation? Don't worry, it's modular or some shit.

It's not even about the money, none of this helps generate actual value - in theory, being able to just target web makes sense, but not if relentlessly overcomplicated at every turn anyway. If the money/management people could tear themselves away from being phished for five minutes, and actually understood how much time and effort is being wasted on building mostly redundant card houses of mostly unnecessary tech, they'd have a stroke.

We have better tools than C today, in C's own domain.

So many parts of C are poorly designed or outdated and we're stuck with them because of backwards compatibility.

Look how long it took to deptecate "gets", a function that is pretty much impossible to use safely.

My choice pick is Nim but Zig and Odin are contenders too.

Plus rust as well.

One problem with this is that C is in no way the "roots" of programming; it's older than most of the languages we use today, but Fortran, Lisp, and Cobol are all older and are also still in use. (And of course there are other languages that predate C but have mostly fallen out of use, such as Pascal.) It feels "low-level" because it closely reflects the hardware for which it was originally designed, the PDP-7 and later the PDP-11. But in fact it hasn't truly been "low-level" for a long time: I highly recommend the ACM article "C Is Not a Low-level Language; Your computer is not a fast PDP-11."

Sooo, why return to C? I don’t get it.

Most (popular) programs are lagging because they're all bundling an entire web browser to get around the cross-platform hurdle. Good in theory, bad in practice. However, even infamous programming languages like Java are now as fast as C thanks to advances in hardware and software, such multiple cores and asynchronous tasks.

Jesus, just stop talking