jerstlouis3

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   by jerstlouis3 3y ago

   The main safety issue really is with dealing with string management. We started working on a more full-featured String class for eC, but never quite managed to perfect it to the point where it could replace all use cases for traditional C s
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   by jerstlouis3 3y ago

   I realize this is not super clear, and in fact we have an open issue to improve on where reference counting are done automatically. At the moment, only global and member instances get automatically incremented/decremented. There is a p
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   by jerstlouis3 3y ago

   < > are used for template arguments, just as in the familiar C++ syntax. Not a big fan of the syntax myself, but that seemed like the right decision at the time :) Similar reason for ::, inspired from C++.
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   by jerstlouis3 3y ago

   Very much alive, just not gaining traction. The slowdown in development is mostly because eC works relatively well and the efforts of our small development team are spent mostly using it rather than improving it :)
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   by jerstlouis3 3y ago

   Hi everyone, Jerome here who designed eC 20 years ago. Happy to see this momentary spike of interest in eC :) eC is still very much alive, but it never gained much traction, as few languages without a major backer do. Our latest efforts ove