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Like the article says, this got cleaned up over 20 years ago in C99. But sure, I wouldn't recommend anyone choose C as a language for new software unless they
by TillE 5y ago
Like the article says, this got cleaned up over 20 years ago in C99.
But sure, I wouldn't recommend anyone choose C as a language for new software unless they have an extremely good reason, or if you really love stuff like implementing every data structure you use from scratch and using void* as a kind of wildly unsafe generic.
- Tehdasi 5y ago> I wouldn't recommend anyone choose C as a language for new software Unless you are doing firmware where all those constraints are still around, and you have to deal with whatever compiler the vendor supplies for their microcontroller, which will almost certainly be some variant of C.
- pjmlp 5y agoThankfully there are vendors that still bother to sell Basic, Pascal compilers for tiny microcontrollers. But yeah doing so is being a special snowflake, still they are in business to this day.