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Re:Actually Portable Executables by himujjal on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:16AM (#26293544)
APE makes it viable for a cross platform C library with a cross platform C compiler to make cross platform binaries.

Besides I was in the same boat as you. I come from the world of JS/Python/Go. I even wrote https://github.com/Himujjal/ekon in pure C recently. The reason I thought C would be good is performance and portability. But I found it to be better to invest time in Rust rather than in C. C is a fantastic language but cross platform dependency management is difficult. Unit Testing is also difficult. There are solutions but not as efficient as Rust's ecosystem.

BTW I wish there could be a Cargo for every language.

Re:Actually Portable Executables by moonchild on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:00AM (#26300861)
> C is a fantastic language

Odd...I find that a very strange sentiment.

I thoroughly enjoy C, and have even written a compiler for it, but I don't think it's a well-designed language by any account.