Re:C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use
by jefbyokyie on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:37PM
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> Does C really need this?
No.
> Do languages need to grow in this way?
No.
> The overriding virtue of C is simplicity.
It's no longer simple, especially not with the C11 memory model (which got retrofitted from C++11, and is totally incomprehensible without reading multiple hundreds of pages of PhD dissertations); however, gratuitously complicating C shouldn't be done.
No.
> Do languages need to grow in this way?
No.
> The overriding virtue of C is simplicity.
It's no longer simple, especially not with the C11 memory model (which got retrofitted from C++11, and is totally incomprehensible without reading multiple hundreds of pages of PhD dissertations); however, gratuitously complicating C shouldn't be done.