Elon loves C
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@markessien @aaronburnett It’s mostly C
8:02 PM · Jun 29, 2026 · 1.5K Views
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Positive users praised C as simple, elegant, and foundational like first principles after Elon Musk's claim about its use in major codebases, while some replies were dismissive or hostile.
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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
C what I did there? Hopefully it's claire enough
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
Elon loves C
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Elias@fcvprzhfgsybj
@beffjezos I can C that
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Ryan Tanaka@RyanTanaka
@beffjezos C
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playerTwo@playerTwoQ
@beffjezos C is simple, C is small. C is beautiful.
Every programmer should learn C, almost everything you code is derived from it.
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teo — e/acc@phteocos
@beffjezos No amount of Ruby sugarcoating can deny how unquestionably elegant (for being simple) is ANSI C
Dennis R is legendary
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Ann Adamson@AnnDiegoUSA
@beffjezos C is foundation series
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DaviRain@DaviRainivaa
@beffjezos Why not consider Zig?
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ali joy@16p11dot2ds
@beffjezos stop
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Dakshay Mehta@Dakshay
@beffjezos C is the equivalent of first principles
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The Yimmer 🇺🇲@theyimmer
@beffjezos C's get degrees! 😅
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nicholas westerfield@HotDogifx8
@beffjezos Hey fatso are your bags packed yet? It’s time for you to go back home to Canada. you can’t stay in America anymore. Trump said so. You need to go back home. You can’t stay here anymore
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