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Did people in the C community consider your proposal?

• WalterBright 7y ago
  I haven't officially proposed it, but every time I've shown it to C people they're just silent - no response. But anyway, you can use D in BetterC mode and have bounds checked slices! https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
  • kryptiskt 7y ago
    You might be interested in this paper: "CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment" https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/28/cheri-abi/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/28/cheri-abi/
  • x0re4x 7y ago
    I would interpret the silence of C people as "Thanks, but no, thanks." The success of C for such long time without having fat pointers, exceptions, RAII, etc... is probably an indication they weren't needed that much. (Jonathan Blow: Ideas about a new programming language for games.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ&list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1kgKJXD3PkyxO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ&list=PLmV5I2fxai...
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      C´s success is just like PHP and JavaScript successes. When a language owns the platform its quality comes second.
      • inlined 7y ago
        Languages are maintained by people. When people have a monopoly quality comes second.
        • pjmlp 7y ago
          Whose interests are to push certain platforms.