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C sits at a sweet spot of performance vs. expressiveness vs. portability whose Pareto-optimality has withstood a half-century test of time. It’s not going anywhere.

The case for replacing C++ is a lot stronger but I don’t see game engines, for instance, switching to Rust (or using garbage collection) any time soon.



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