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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by marcosdumay on Thursday December 24, 2015 @09:43AM (#10788290)
> but if safety is your priority you should probably look at things other than C

And those things are?

C is the low level language we have. Now compiler writers decided it'll work like a high level language, except for all the actual benefits.

We'll probably get usable C compilers that work (in fact, this already started), and some stuff only good for old code.

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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by overgard on Thursday December 24, 2015 @10:34AM (#10788450)
Rust or Go are possible alternatives, or Java if it doesn't need to be system level.
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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by Senji on Thursday December 24, 2015 @11:11AM (#10788568)
Java for performance critical or realtime things sounds like a feverish dreamed nightmare.
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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by dequis on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:30AM (#10790655)
The question was about safety, and java is indeed safe.
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