“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success”

Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by aldanor on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:00PM (#36658287)

IDE tools like what? LSPs for Rust are on par / better than that of C/C++, partially because of language being stricter, no #include nonsense etc. Unlike C/C++, sane build system and dependency management system that are universally agreed upon actually exist. What exactly is "going take a while"?

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by estebank on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:38PM (#36658630)

I would assume debugger support. Rust is in a tough spot because a lot of code gets compiled away, and debuggers need to understand some Rust-isms for good experience, like enum support. I don't think this is an insurmountable situation, though.

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by c_crank on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:23PM (#36660530)

People universally agree that replicating NPM's dependency hell was a good idea?

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