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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by dgellow on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:33AM (#23005578)
Do you know of use of “BetterC” in real-life (i.e: for non-pet projects)? It would be interesting to hear about some real use cases.
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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by WalterBright on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:38AM (#23005614)
I know several people like it and use it very much, but I haven't followed their projects. Many were skeptical of the BetterC project, but it has proven its worth.

I've used it myself to easily convert some of my older C programs to D and make them easier to maintain.

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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by skocznymroczny on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:50AM (#23005686)
BetterC is interesting because it allows you to compile D to WASM. Unfortunately D runtime and GC haven't been ported to WASM yet so they are not fully supported.
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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by pjmlp on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:43AM (#23006022)
It was recently discussed in the forums, it should be coming, the actual situation has delayed the development.
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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by p0nce on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:35AM (#23007373)
We have 100kLOC of not -betterC but D without its runtime. If you write a -betterC library normally you can use it with normal D, but the reverse isn't true.
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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by arunc on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:25AM (#23005900)
libmir[0] is being used in production by different companies for numerical processing.

[0] https://www.libmir.org/

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