[marcofiset]

The industry has deemed those languages completely unnecessary when we migrated away from coffeescript.

Syntactic sugar can’t be the only thing that makes a programming language.

[boredtofears]

C is syntactic sugar on top of assembly

[jmull]

That’s part of what C does, but it’s not the only thing.

Assembly adds mnemonics and a logical structure to machine code.

C largely does the same, but adds a cross-platform abstraction, mechanisms for organizing and sharing source code, a standard library, and various other things.

[voidUpdate]

Assembly is syntactic sugar on top of Machine Code

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C++ was, for a long time, syntactic sugar on top of C