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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by 7532yahoogmail on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:18PM (#22872177)
I agree which brought me into looking at Zig. A future version of C might disallow macros, preprocessor, disallow circular libraries, include a module system, but allow importing legacy libs like Zig. Also something like llvm so we can automatically do static analysis, transforms would be great.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by eggy on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:44AM (#22877599)
I am back to learning Zig for the way it addresses some pitfalls in C, but really because it is so easy for cross-platform work. Compiling a program to a Windows exe on my 2011 iMac Pro and then running it on my Windows machine was so easy and the error messages are so helpful when they do occur.

I am not an expert at either C or Zig, so I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who can more intelligently compare the two.

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