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Discussion on: Is C Most Underrated Programming Language?

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Sergiy Yevtushenko

C was great at the time of invention. It's still OK, but definitely not underrated. Probably the most underrated language by now is Rust. Rust basically puts resource management (not just memory) into the hearth of language and does this in style and with nearly zero performance impact.

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Look like Rust need to be know to other for resource management.

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Sergiy Yevtushenko

There are a lot of articles about memory management in Rust. This one is quite good at explaining the advantages of Rust resource management model at mode general level (i.e. for other resources, not just memory).

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Sure I will check that to learn more about it

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Daniel Ziltener

The most underrated language(family) will always be Lisp

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Suraj Vishwakarma

It's among the oldest programming language that we know. Very few people today used this language and don't know anyone using it.

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Daniel Ziltener

Clojure is fairly popular.

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Suraj Vishwakarma

It's more of a modern languages than other member of the group