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And just like in Metal Gear, he dies of old age if you wait a bit.
C is old, ubiquitous and still does not have a good replacement for its low-level cross-platform usecases, so I'll believe it when I see it 😄
You’re right about C++ being developed as a superset of C, but both languages have changed enough since that it’s no longer a true superset. C can do a couple things C++ can’t now.