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Evolution of C(programming.dev)

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lad@programming.dev
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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

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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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.

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fermuch@lemmy.ml
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What about Zig?

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lad@programming.dev
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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

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files…

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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IIRC it’s garbage collected, so really it’s just a version of Java.

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