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		olliej on March 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore Fuchsia/zircon uses IDL to define the system API interface and it works for them :D

saagarjha on March 17, 2022 [–]

Ok to be fair Fuschia could define their system API using Protobuf and it would work for them

olliej on March 17, 2022 | [–]

:p

This was more an observation that you can specify a system ABI in a way that isn't a fragile as C's. At least it isn't xml plists :D

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