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Re:D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi an... by wahern on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:43AM (#20292454)
If you're using macros or another language entirely to generate C code, it's often to preserve type safety. Otherwise it's often easier to typecast everything through void pointers.

It's the same situation with Go, so it's not like C is entirely anachronistic with regards to the trade-offs it makes.

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Re:D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi an... by pjmlp on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:38AM (#20302013)
Macros and type safety don't really go hand in hand, hence why ISO C++ is progressively removing any reason to still use them beyond conditional compilation.

Go, just like C, is stuck on a by gone era of programming languages.

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