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Amazing that this took ~20 years to design and it still had to be rushed through to get into c++20…

• Koshkin 5y ago
  You can take K&R C from my cold, dead hands. There was no header file hell. Often you didn't need a single header to be included in your code: most functions returned int (or nothing), and if you needed something that returned double, you could just say so. I remember being excited about function prototypes, but something was irretrievably lost at that point. The primal elegance of C as it was conceived by its creators is long forgotten now. (If you want, you can still experience it with the Tiny C Compiler that seems to continue to understand K&R C code just fine.)
  • 37ef_ced3 5y ago
    I think you're trying to say you like C but dislike C++'s complexity. You will enjoy Go. Go can be understood as an improved, modernized C that doesn't abandon C's simplicity.
    • the_duke 5y ago
      The "Go is like C" comparison never made any sense to me. Go has a sophisticated runtime with transparent N:M threading and built-in concurrency primitives, Interfaces, garbage collection and a large standard library. Go is only simple when compared to the other languages that sit in a similar space, like Java and C#.
      • pjmlp 5y ago
        C's runtime is UNIX, that is why we got POSIX.
    • throw_m239339 5y ago
      > Go can be understood as an improved, modernized C that doesn't abandon C's simplicity. This is false, because Go has a garbage collector by default. This isn't an "improvement" in anyway but for those who don't care about memory management and predictable and deterministic performances.