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Automatic memory management is literally what makes them better

• uecker 9mo ago
  For many string operations such as appending, inserting, overwriting etc. the memory management can be made automatic as well in C, and I think this is the main advantage. Just automatic free at scope end does not work (without extensions).
  • direwolf20 9mo ago
    You can make strings (or bignums or matrices) more convenient than the C default but you can never make them as convenient as ints, while in C++ you can.
    • uecker 9mo ago
      Yes, but I do not think this is a good thing. A programming language has to fulfill many requirements, and convenience for the programmer is not the most important.
      • direwolf20 9mo ago
        Empirically it is. All the most used languages are the most convenient ones.