Ask HN: Can someone list the software writern in pure C?

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by z3phyr • 14 years ago

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It will be great, if you list in three catagories, namely - current(code is mantained, and new code is added/writern example linux kernel (it will be C till linus is alive)), new/upcomming, legecy... What is the future of C, in the age of parrlel computing?

GeneralMayhem• 14 years ago

No.

Such a list would be almost interminable. You could ask "what sorts of things is pure C still used for?" and then you could get a reply that lists categories - the GNU suite, drivers, kernels, etc. - but asking for a list of C programs is ridiculous.

Millennium• 14 years ago

For the last 40 years, C has been on a very short list of the most common programming languages on the market. It might not always have been at the top, but it has never been very far from the top since it was created. This means that the list of software written in C is simply too large to put here, or just about anywhere.

As for the future of C in an age where more tasks are being done in parallel, the C11 standard may give better information than I can.

z3phyr• 14 years ago

Yeah, I understand how much indispensible C is in computer science... It IS difficult to list all...

Ok, I ask to list by relevancy and popularity, like at least top 20?? Or at least list promising recent/upcomming projects.

JoachimSchipper• 14 years ago

You could look at e.g. https://github.com/languages/C and http://sourceforge.net/directory/language:c/freshness:recent....

Interesting projects could include Linux/PostgreSQL (current) and Redis (pretty new); I tend to steer clear of unmaintained software, so I cannot help you there.

pbeckingham• 14 years ago

Lua. Checkout the source code - it's gorgeous.

Ask HN: Can someone list the software writern in pure C?

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