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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656173

• k__ 6y ago
  Are these also issues for languages like Go and Rust?
  • cryptonector 6y ago
    No, not for Rust, and not for Goland, IIRC. The reason is that they have proper namespacing functionality in the language, and generally modern languages record dependency metadata in the direct dependents. This is strictly a C problem.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      And the worse part is that other system languages back in the day (PL/I, Algol, Mesa and Pascal variants) already had some form of namespacing support.
  • kccqzy 6y ago
    Of course not. It's not even a problem for C++ if you use namespaces pervasively. This is purely support for C.