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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by 9659 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:01AM (#36654134)
Ada. 83 or 95
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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by flohofwoe on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:12AM (#36654193)
Interesting choice, but Ada is probably even less popular than Zig.

Even just requiring users to integrate my hypophetical Ada library source distribution into their project's build system files would most likely drown me in support tickets ;)

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by pjmlp on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:04PM (#36658319)
It certainly has more production deployments than Zig might ever get.
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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by pjmlp on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:05PM (#36658335)
We are in Ada 2012 nowadays, with Ada 202x getting finalized.

https://www.adaic.org/advantages/ada-202x/

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by 9659 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:49PM (#36717640)
my point is either of these versions are very complete and usable implementations. more recent is even better.
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