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by adrianN 1316 days ago
Sure, there is a mountain of legacy code. But why start Flatpak in C?
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imran-iq 1316 days ago
Because C can run on almost everything? For example, take Doom and the whole "Can it run Doom?" meme
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pjmlp 1315 days ago
Except for some weird architectures, where C is supported, C++ is as well.

And if either GCC or clang are supported, they support safer languages than C and C++ on their standard collection of frontends.

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adrianN 1315 days ago
How many architectures run Flatpak that don't have a compiler for any safer systems language? I don't think you run Flatpak on weird embedded chips, but maybe I'm mistaken.
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