Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by wahern on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:36PM
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GCD relies on Blocks (closures) for ergonomics, and Blocks have been proposed to WG14, for example N1451: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1451.pdf
We're remaining active while there are still people asking questions, so the west coast folks should hopefully have the chance to ask what they'd like.
> Do you also answer questions about the standard libraries?
Sure!
> I'm wondering if Apple's Grand Central Dispatch ever made it into a more integrated role in C's libraries, or if it will forever remain an outside add-on.
GCD has not been adopted into C yet, and I don't believe it's even been proposed to do so by anyone (or an alternative to GCD, either).
It would be an interesting proposal to see fleshed out for the committee, and there is a lot of implementation experience with the feature, so I think the committee would consider it more carefully than an inventive proposal with no real-world field experience.