The cost of forsaking C

Re:The cost of forsaking C by StavrosK on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:03PM (#12645643)

> I don't understand your complaint. There are mature regex libraries for C found with the obvious Google search. Source code included. Why would you not just pick and consume one, as you would in Python?

Mostly because I'm used to one single place for libraries (PyPI) and I don't know how to find (and evaluate) libraries in C. I also don't know if they'll run on my MCU or how much RAM they require. I have found one or two embedded regex libraries, but they were very limited in what they could do or failed some other criterion.

Besides, that was just an example, it's just death by a thousand cuts with similar things one after the other.

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Re:The cost of forsaking C by kkarakk on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:46AM (#12651934)

-I don't know how to find (and evaluate) libraries in C

you can replace C with any language. you're evangelising about the toolbox you know instead of learning about the hammer you are familiar with and don't want to learn how to operate

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Re:The cost of forsaking C by StavrosK on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:48PM (#12673385)

Alright, I'm game. Where's the C library repository, and what's the manager I can use to handle dependencies automatically?

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