What are some programs that you would not write in C instead of another higher-level language?

• Nim

  347 16,060 9.9 Nim

  Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  

https://nim-lang.org/, and yes Python.

• linux

  980 170,074 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• GNU Emacs

  242 4,246 9.9 Emacs Lisp

  Mirror of GNU Emacs

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• Vim

  424 34,973 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• Apache

  82 3,424 9.3 C

  Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• Nginx

  99 20,211 8.9 C

  An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• Lighttpd

  2 468 7.8 C

  lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• CPython

  1,314 59,531 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

• Lua

  118 7,974 8.5 C

  Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

  

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

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