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Re:Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library by Gibbon1 on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:19AM (#19643011)
Until rust came along you had three non CG options C, C++ and ADA. If you also have a no heap requirement you're left with just C and ADA.

Rust is interesting if you can live with slow compile times and 4X the memory footprint of C.

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Re:Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library by keldaris on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:48AM (#19643434)
Why does the no heap requirement preclude C++? Obviously, you couldn't use much of the STL (not really a loss in constrained environments), but I don't see a reason to write off the language itself?
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Re:Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library by nickpsecurity on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:32AM (#19645717)
It is used in embedded. I think that refutes the claim.
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Re:Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library by steveklabnik on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:04AM (#19644017)
The memory footprint thing shouldn’t be different now; we stopped using jemalloc by default.
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