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by pkkm 3y ago
It's odd that you included systemd in the list. It's something that a casual user isn't going to notice, but that has made life easier for system administrators and desktop tinkerers. With systemd, I can write a few lines of
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by pkkm 3y ago
It's the only language I'm aware of that takes C's explicitness and pushes it even further: it bans some implicit conversions, and it makes you pass an allocator as an argument to functions which can allocate memory. Most lan
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Oh, I don't use C for every command-line utility. If it's something IO-bound like parsing a webpage and downloading a bunch of files linked from it, I write it in Python. The convenience of modules like argparse and requests i
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by pkkm 3y ago
> It's all still going to be a million time faster than whatever you were doing in Python, or Java, or Go, or Javascript, or whatever. Not at all. Systems languages don't magically make all code faster, they just help you write
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by pkkm 3y ago
> I very much question that “you don’t write C as C++ part”, if anything you don’t write C++ as C as that would be inefficient. Yeah, I was thinking about your string example when I wrote that. For high performance numerical code, I can
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> Yeah if you want to kill yourself from frustrations, maybe. I'm not writing microcontroller code for the fucking space shuttle, and I would suspect most people aren't. You're really exaggerating the problems. Does your n
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> How are the toolkits e.g. for ESP32 and TI in terms of C23 compatibility? C23 hasn't been released yet so it's hard to talk about compatibility. It's probably going to take a few years before it's widely supported.
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> due to its low level of expressivity, you often have to introduce less efficient solutions simply because language deficiencies. Things like small string optimizations in C++ are simply not possible in C. You don't have to use a
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> I really hate how for microcontrollers the only two choices are either C++ or Micropython Why wouldn't you just use C for programming a microcontroller? Sure, it's not a great language for web backends, but microcontrollers a
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1. It gives me a lot of control over how the program works, which lets me create programs that work faster and use less memory than would be possible in most other languages. 2. Relatedly, it's more explicit than almost any other langu
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by pkkm 3y ago
What do you find so crazy about it? Dynamically typed languages like these can be fast. It has already been demonstrated with Common Lisp and, more recently, JavaScript. Not only that, but LuaJIT has shown that you don't need impossibl
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by pkkm 3y ago
Take a look at OCaml, Kotlin, and F#. They aren't literally what you described, but they're close enough than I think you may find them useful.
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Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (2016)(lwn.net)
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Use singular nouns for database table names(teamten.com)
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Poll: Which build system do you use for C and C++?
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CMake
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Meson
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Visual Studio
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make
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A shell script
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SCons
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waf
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Autotools
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Premake
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Bazel
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qmake
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zig build
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build2
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xmake
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