C: too high-level for hardware people, too low-level for software people.

Harmony through mutual discomfort.

@fribbledom
I thought these days everyone had migrated to Javascript?

*ducks away quickly*

@fribbledom jack of all trades, master of none

@fribbledom best IR on the market

@fribbledom It was only when learning Julia and discovering that it's C FFI's Cint type maps to Int32 on x86_64 that I came upon the cursed knowledge that despite everything C did to make `int` "the processor word" type, it was still so ingrained as a 32-bit type that it remained so even on 64-bit architectures.

@fribbledom @thegcat ah yes, the unequivocal “we’ll make all of your lives miserable” strategy, a staple of modern software development