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		gautamcgoel on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C Curious what the committee members think of the new competitors to C, e.g. Go, Rust, and Zig. Any comments?

VWWHFSfQ on April 14, 2020 [–]

go isnt a competitor to c

pjmlp on April 14, 2020 | [–]

F-Secure apparently thinks otherwise,

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory

As does Google,

https://github.com/google/gvisor

https://github.com/google/gapid

Naturally if one is talking about specific uses cases like IoT with a couple of KBs, MISRA-C, or UNIX kernels, then yes Go is not a competitor.

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