{"id":136175,"date":"2022-02-28T08:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-move-the-linux-kernel-to-modern-c"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:22:38","slug":"linus-torvalds-prepares-to-move-the-linux-kernel-to-modern-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-move-the-linux-kernel-to-modern-c","title":{"rendered":"Linus Torvalds prepares to move the Linux kernel to modern C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-move-the-linux-kernel-to-modern-c2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it\u2019s written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159\u20111989, or ANSI C. Linus Torvalds has decided that enough is enough and will move Linux\u2019s official C to 2011\u2019s C11 standard.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Linux kernel\u2019s foundation is the ancient C89 standard of C. Now, Torvalds has decided to upgrade to 2011\u2019s more modern C11 standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it\u2019s written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159\u20111989, or ANSI C. Linus Torvalds has decided that enough is enough and will move Linux\u2019s official C [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}