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Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by quotemstr on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:39AM (#27210186)
C will be here a long time, but it shouldn't be. There's still zero reason to write new code in C. None. If you need to integrate with a legacy codebase, fine. But for new code? C++ is better in every possible way.
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Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by vardump on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:02PM (#27210481)
While I agree Rust might be the future, there are a ton of platforms where C is still the only real option. Like for example many microcontrollers. Or legacy computer systems.

But I do give you that the number of use cases where C is required are decreasing rapidly.

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Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by yesenadam on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:48PM (#27215845)
> There's still zero reason to write new code in C.

How about "I like it"? (I used to program in C++ 20 years ago..but not in many years. I just prefer C.)

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