Programming

I have to object to the supposed necessity of C. In particular, the bolded claim that an OS not written in C is still going to have C involved.

Such an OS could instead have written its non-native parts using assembly.

Agreed! That's a great point!

I appreciate your clarification. Not everything has to run C. It's just a trend in today's products.

I was attempting to humorously reference Monty Python's Spam sketch, where it seems like everything on the menu has at least a little Spam in it. Every device I could think of, that I've toyed with enough to guess what it has running, is running at least a bit of C.

For an attempt at a counterpoint, I thought of a few devices, like my PineWatch, that run an OS codes entirely written in one language. But... That one language is, of course, C.

legacy convenience.

Yeah. I think legacy convenience is, indeed, why there's C in so many places, even places it doesn't have to be.

There's so many folks with so much hardware driver expertise in C, and they teach our next generation, so I figure that will continue until something really compelling changes their preference.

I appreciate your point. There are lots of non-C ways to create bytecode. My (amused) point is that we don't seem very fond of any of those methods, today.