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Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by me_me_me on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:21PM (#27215681)
> But don't use it in new stuff. It's that bad. It really is. Sorry.

Anyone is entitled to live in a their delusions, no need to apologize.

Tell me how are you going to write a driver for you new device your company is shipping? Or write firmware for it?

C is a container ship that carries the world's trade on its back, and you come here trying to sell rockets as new means of transportation. We will see if truck are still here in 30 years :) vs some fad language that is going to be forgotten in next few years.

Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by quotemstr on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:53AM (#27218552)
Your comment doesn't contain any technical details. You don't get anything from writing C instead of C++. What does C let you do that C++ does not?
Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by junon on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:02PM (#27228529)
Verify it.
Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by me_me_me on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:40PM (#27229232)
My voice is my passport. Verify me.
Re:Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C by hderms on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:05PM (#27216548)
It's looking like Rust is here to stay