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They really want to kill C right? If you want a better C, do yourself a favor and use D Same syntax, more secure and with modules
by Kukumber 4y ago
They really want to kill C right?
If you want a better C, do yourself a favor and use D
Same syntax, more secure and with modules
- Xunjin 4y agoThis kind of comment is not helpful at all, I use Rust today however, yet I cannot sometimes deny, it's better to use C depending on the target and restrictions by hardware compilers. Every language has downsides/upsides and time. There is a nice quote by Titus Winters: “Engineering is programming integrated over time”[0], this helped me a lot in learning that context matter for tools/languages/frameworks, and you can learn with their mistakes. [0]: https://youtu.be/tISy7EJQPzI https://youtu.be/tISy7EJQPzI
- Aardwolf 4y agoWhich change in particular do you dislike?
- Kukumber 4y agoIt's not about things i dislike, it's subjective, it is about their priority and the feature they think are needed I'm still waiting for tagged unions, tuple and pattern matching auto and #embed is nice to have though
- __phantomderp 4y agoI don't think we have any proposals for language-supported tagged unions (have to do them yourself), tuples (write your own macro/struct), or pattern matching (lole). You'll have a hard time pushing for those: C will likely never get them in those forms. At least, not for another 10-20 years, since there's no existing C compiler that implements any of those things yet.
- Kukumber 4y agoThere you highlighted what i meant by they want C dead
- dotopotoro 4y agoI like to imagine that their goal is similar, yet less ambitious: to keep C alive only for those who really need it.