>>63Tokenizer cons cells are literally a toy. How are you going to networking/graphics/sound/input/etc in the preprocessor? Do you seriously believe that's in the future for the
preprocessor of a portable assembly code?
The only reason the world runs on C is because of that portable assembly language use case, which has a lot of momentum in writing OSes. But then they expose the OS interface only as a C interface, nearly requiring that their applications be written in their
systems language, which is fucking backwards and everybody knows it. It's that interface that keeps everything clung to C.
But the web world is far beyond C & C++. The
ENTERPRISE world loves it some Cobol, Java, and whatnot. Devops is python, perl, ruby, shell scripts. Supercomputing is Fortran. So you've got games, UI libs which are still stuck onto that C/OS interface shit, and basic OS utilities still being written in C. But even the utility layer is being taken over by other languages.