On: Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf]

[milesrout]

I can't think of any really big programmes written entirely in a single language. Every single programme out there is dependent on libraries written in C, kernels written in C, libraries written in C++, etc. Emacs is full of Lisp.

Maybe Chrome? Chrome is written entirely in C++.

[pjmlp → milesrout]

> Every single programme out there is dependent on libraries written in C, kernels written in C,

There are no mainframe OS with kernels written in C.

Linking to C is an option of the program author, sometimes there is an option, sometimes the authors doesn't do any better.

When I wrote my compiler project for the university, I made the point the language runtime should have zero lines of C.

> Maybe Chrome? Chrome is written entirely in C++.

The purpose of Chrome is to allow users to run applications written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Those users would be able to see exactly the same web pages regardless of the programming language used to write the browser.