C
The portable assembly that operating systems, embedded devices and most other languages are built on. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- ISO C committee (WG14)
- Created by
- Dennis Ritchie
- First release
- 1972
- License
- Open standard
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14
- Paradigms
- Procedural
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Weak
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Manual
- Runs as
- Native code
- Main implementation
- GCC, Clang, MSVC
- Concurrency
- Threads (C11 threads, POSIX threads), atomics
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- None
- Used for
- Systems, Embedded
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 9899