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Because it’s the fastest programming language


Yep but some are claiming this makes the speed of light incredibly unsafe and unpredictable.

A small but loud group of scientists are working to replace c with a crab emoji in most literature going forward.


Travelling at c is UB.


>unsafe and unpredictable.

Just llike the Electron.


I definitely though of the programming language at first. Although the speed of light is a bit presumptuous to qualify the speed of C, I now wonder why every benchmark is against C, and not some other language.


Partly because it is fairly fast, partly because, whatever you’re running your language on, chances are better that you can run a C compiler on it than that you can run most other languages.


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