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New wave of GLP-1 drugs is coming–and they're stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

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1•randycupertino•1m ago•0 comments

Convert tempo (BPM) to millisecond durations for musical note subdivisions

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1•brylie•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tasty A.F.

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1•adammfrank•4m ago•0 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer

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1•Thevet•5m ago•0 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

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1•alephnerd•5m ago•0 comments

Bithumb mistakenly hands out $195M in Bitcoin to users in 'Random Box' giveaway

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Beyond Agentic Coding

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2•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

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OpenBSD Copyright Policy

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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

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What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
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You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

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Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
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Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

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Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

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Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

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Moltbook was peak AI theater

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Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

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1•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Are there many C developers here?

12•Forgret•5mo ago

Comments

sim7c00•5mo ago
very likely. what is the objective of your question?
Forgret•5mo ago
I see that there are a lot of posts about frontend, AI, and other programming languages, especially Rust, so I wanted to know if there are still active C programmers here and what they might be doing right now?
DamonHD•5mo ago
C (and C++) when needed.
LouDNL•5mo ago
As a hobby more C and embedded C then C++, but yeah! Clojure day job.
jleyank•5mo ago
While it’s not sexy, I suspect there’s still a whole lot of silicon being melted using C, C++ and whatever Fortran is called now. Lots of simulations are accessible now and much of the calculation logic can be parallelized.

Remember, if you manage to get a drug to market 3 months earlier, you can make billions. And if you get a hit on something like Alzheimer’s, you’ll need 64-bit to count that high. Ozempic distorted the Danish economy and it’s passed by follow-ons.

khedoros1•5mo ago
C++ mostly, but parts of the codebase are in C, and I have to dip into it now and then. I'm certainly more comfortable in C than in webdev or Rust (although I wouldn't mind picking up some Rust).
beardyw•5mo ago
There is a surprising depth of knowledge on a lot of subjects on HN, C included.
iExploder•5mo ago
Not many, but there are some who remain I would say. C and C++ is not going anywhere in embedded. No need too press F just yet.
Forgret•5mo ago
I'm afraid that Rust will replace C/C++ in everything.
cpach•5mo ago
In theory it could happen, but even so it would take years. There’s just so much C code out there. Stuff like Linux, Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, QEMU, etc etc.
ActorNightly•5mo ago
Absolutely not.

C has the advantage of being an extremely small language in terms of syntax, which means its incredibly easy to port it to any architecture. Whenever you build a chip and want to program it, writing an LLVM backend for it with optimizations is almost trivial (assuming you understand the core concepts).

Rust has a lot more things to consider in the compiler, which leads to slow adoption, and also its more cumbersome to program in.

bjourne•5mo ago
None
dapperdrake•5mo ago

  printf("Yes.");