An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers

Re:An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers by kjs3 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:18PM (#27124302)

few UNIX vendors that cared to offer compiler like Sun, it was an additional acquisiation on top of UNIX SDK.

The Sun C compiler was an additional cost item, just like everyone else.

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Re:An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers by pjmlp on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:23AM (#27126903)

Indeed, so if you already had to pay for C which is a required language on any UNIX, there is no way around it, why spend the extra dollars for Ada just to feel good?

That was my point.

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Re:An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers by kjs3 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:14PM (#27131987)

Because it's a better language for a lot of use cases? But I concede that the history of the industry indicates that "don't care" is the norm.

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