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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 206 days ago
What language is used to write the batteries
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C/C++, in large part
These days it's a whole lot of Rust.
These days it’s still a whole lot of Fortran, with some Rust sprinkled on top. (:
Which since Fortran 2003, or even Fortran 95, has gotten rather nice to use.
IDK it's become too verbose IMHO, looks almost like COBOL now. (I think it was Fortran 66 that was the last Fortran true to its nature as a "Formula Translator"...)
We are way beyond comparing languages to COBOL, now that plenty folks type whole book sized descriptions into tiny chat windows for their AI overloads.
And below that, FORTRAN :)