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I haven't looked at Jai. I'll have to check it out. I have looked at Zig, which seems to inhabit a similar space. They both seem a little too early days for me
by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I haven't looked at Jai. I'll have to check it out. I have looked at Zig, which seems to inhabit a similar space. They both seem a little too early days for me at the moment (I at least want a chance at using it $work), but I like the general idea of better C.
- vips7L 7y agoD has a betterC flag [0]. Though at that point I'm not sure why you wouldn't just write c++17. [0] https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/ https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
- WalterBright 7y agoD's betterC includes the metaprogramming facilities.
- vips7L 7y agoAnd at the very least it has dub right? I've thought about it alot.
- skocznymroczny 7y agoI'd love to use betterC more if it had dynamic arrays and assoc arrays. BetterC opens up opportunities such as WebAssembly too.
- earenndil 7y agoWebassembly is slowly (but carefully) deciding on a garbage collection spec of its own; once that's available, you should see a whole new slew of languages targeting it, including full-fledged d.