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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by phpisthebest on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:02PM (#34344751)
>>Microsoft says new stuff should not be written in c like languages anymore

Microsoft is dropping C#? Source for that?

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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by diroussel on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:07PM (#34344844)
C# is not a C-like language. It's a managed runtime with garbage collection.

However Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure did say that it's time to drop C and C++

https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/15719951172335042...

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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by ccouzens on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:09PM (#34344879)
Based on the context I think by "c like" they meant languages with a culture of dealing with raw pointers. c# is c by name and curly braces, but primarily uses managed memory
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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by mplewis9z on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:04PM (#34344799)
Calling C# a C-like language is like saying JavaScript is a descendant of Java.
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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by babypuncher on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:40PM (#34345315)
C# is C-like in syntax only.

Syntax isn't the reason why C and C++ are falling out of favor.

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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by bfrog on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:03PM (#34344786)
C# is a lot closer to Java if anything, should clarify to be c and c++
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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by jon-wood on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:05PM (#34344819)
I think the GP probably poorly phrased that. “Memory unsafe languages” would be a better term, apart from the basic syntax C# really isn’t very C-like.
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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by AppleBananaPie on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:05PM (#34344813)
could be worded better but from context in the sentence I read that as c/c++
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