jakeStbu

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   by jakeStbu 2y ago

   Yeah building a C cross compiler can certainly be a pain. I do feel like basically every Zig improvement over C also exists with Rust, though, including, yes, ease of cross compilation.
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   by jakeStbu 2y ago

   I see. Better error handling could perhaps be something that C can improve, yes, especially as compared to things like errno (which yes is technically not C specific but rather Linux specific, but it would be good to have a layer of abstrac
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   by jakeStbu 2y ago

   ChatGPT is not particularly smart and tends to generate answers which should not be trusted. Of course, I have done Google searches before this, but most of them just point to the same answer - "It's C but simpler".
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