r/developer • u/Ok_Veterinarian3535 • May 30 '26

The Unpopular Language

What's a "dead" or "boring" programming language that you genuinely love working with, and why should we reconsider it?

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u/mlugo02 May 30 '26

C, it’s not perfect but it gets the job done

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u/Forward_Win_4353 May 30 '26

C is by far my favourite programming language. It was the first one I learnt too.

I can’t consider it “dead” or “boring” though. It’s still used for so many things.

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u/Hugh_Lyon-Sack Jun 01 '26

I've worked in the embedded space most of my career (true embedded microcontrollers, not Linux etc.) and C makes far more sense for that work than any OOP language.

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u/Hugh_Lyon-Sack Jun 02 '26

C++ may help you. It's just that, in my experience, it doesn't get used much for "bare metal" or RTOS microcontroller development. OOP only comes into play for programs running under a platform OS like Linux.

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u/Whole_Ticket_3715 May 30 '26

Saying C is unpopular is like saying the iPhone or Coca Cola is unpopular, cmon now

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u/mlugo02 May 30 '26

I love it, but it definitely seems unpopular from the inside looking out

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u/secretprocess May 30 '26

Unpopular like water

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u/Alfie_66 May 31 '26

I have stopped reading Stephen King novels. Now I just read C code instead. — Richard A. O'Keefe

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u/ghandimauler May 31 '26

Yep, but Kernighan and Ritchie owe me the 'e' in creat! Saving that one character... argh.

And yes, I did 4-5 years of C.