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by rseacord 2255 days ago
I don't really see C going anywhere. It's not going away, and it's not going to evolve into Java. It's going to remain especially useful for memory constrained and performance critical applications such as IoT and embedded.
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That sounds reasonable, but the resource-constrained space seems to me to be an ever-shrinking share of the field. So is it fair to say you see C becoming a specialist niche language going forward?