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Evolution of C (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Anything that is drop-in replacement for C (or C++ for that matter) is going to be awful because of the same compatibility burden, imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

D is a mostly drop-in replacement (type renaming and such needed though), and it doesn't have that issue. D even has a mode called BetterC, where the D standard library and the garbage collector is left out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What about Zig?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC it's garbage collected, so really it's just a version of Java.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It does not use a GC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it's not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that's it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was planning to check it out, but don't have any experience yet. I thought it is more of a replacement than drop-in replacement, I may have been wrong