Whilst C based apps can be made to run efficiently, its not efficient to code with the usual tools compared to other languages and IDE's (think big customer development bills), and thats even before you get into the debate of whether some code runs faster with multiple threads on multicore cpu's whilst bearing in mind the ram & bus limits, cpu cache collisions, available cpu instruction sets and so on.
More people really should get over the "awesomeness" of the clockwork turk machine, unless they are easily pleased?
Whilst C based apps can be made to run efficiently, its not efficient to code with the usual tools compared to other languages and IDE's (think big customer development bills), and thats even before you get into the debate of whether some code runs faster with multiple threads on multicore cpu's whilst bearing in mind the ram & bus limits, cpu cache collisions, available cpu instruction sets and so on.
More people really should get over the "awesomeness" of the clockwork turk machine, unless they are easily pleased?