it means C is going the way of classic World of Warcraft.

What does that mean?

WoW released a steady stream of expansions from 2004 to present day. At some point players wanted the old game, so Blizzard released WoW 2004, known as classic, in 2018, and reran the stream of expansions, stopping before any mass enshittification. You can draw the same parallels with C and C++, where C began picking the best from C++ in 1999, 2011, 2023, and soon to be 2029, and carving its own "classic" path.

We even have our Herb Sutter: Jens Gustedt

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kllrnohj an hour ago | parent [-]

Except people aren't leaving C++ for C, if they're leaving it at all they're likely leaving it for Rust or some other memory safe language.

	▲	uecker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, I was leaving C++ for C. I found this unburdened my mind from quite a lot of distracting complexity. For this reason, I am also not really tempted by Rust.