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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by _pdp_ on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:18AM (#15497844)
Maybe you want something like Babel JS but for C - i.e. a transpiler.
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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by nurettin on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:43AM (#15497915)
Pretty sure they had a similar idea in mind when they invented the C preprocessor.
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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by viperscape on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:11AM (#15497987)
Transpilers are what’s helping JavaScript, and moving it along, eg; class and modules were needed, transpilers provided it, now it’s being adopted
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