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by jaisjdkaaaej 922 days ago
People writing C are the people that really do have to make syscalls directly, or use weird calling conventions, or whatever all the time. I see Rust replacing C++ but I have a hard time seeing it replace C because the people that desired and/or could tolerate safety, like you said, are already not writing C for the most part. That group has been firmly C++ for a long time.
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> People writing C are the people that really do have to make syscalls directly,

Not really. See for example desktop Linux (i.e. Gnome).