Panzerschrek

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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
The mentioned proposal isn't really that great. It basically tries to make C++ to Rust by blindly copying many its ideas. Many of them aren't strictly necessary to achieve safety in C++. There are different proposals for safety, w
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
This is a very nice approach. You should mention it on the main page of your OS site.
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
What about filesystem access rights? Does any application have full access to all user's files? Or only to files belonging to this particular application?
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
What else does it have rather than beautiful UI? Network support? Sound? What file systems does it support? What about multiple users? What about applications isolation? It would be nice to have such information displayed somewhere on the s
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
How did you collect this information? Manually by checking all compilers? By writing tests? By parsing compilers documentation?
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
As I know C++ now allows multiple dispatch for std::variant: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit2.htm... . And std::variant is now a better choice for cases like in the article above,
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
I agree, C++ code compilation is generally slower compared to C. But the compiler itself isn't particularity slower (under the hood it's the same compiler), but compiling C++ code with a lot of templates is slow. For me personally
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
Ok, it's fine, if you just wanted to experiment with macros. This seems to be a legit reason to use pure C.
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
Why do people do such wired projects? Why not just using C++ instead of pure C?
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by Panzerschrek 1y ago
This may be not so powerful gamma ray source as expected, considering that it may radiate in one or two narrow beams, which isn't unusual.