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Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? by andrewmcwatters on Sunday May 11, 2025 @09:53AM (#43953838)
I feel many of your sentiments, and suspect that many C successors fail, because they don't want to just look like an evolution of C in the same way C with Classes did.

No one is out here building C with Safety.

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Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? by pjmlp on Sunday May 11, 2025 @10:29AM (#43954077)
WG14 could design such an evolutionary path, it has been obvious since 1980's, however they clearly aren't interested.
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Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? by andrewmcwatters on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:39PM (#43955953)
Yeah, it's really disappointing. I think the general attitude is to use calls to functions that are safe and to use instrumentation, which I get, but it results in these piecemeal fixes over the years.
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Re:Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or? by pjmlp on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:58PM (#43956105)
If only such functions would exist, instead of pointer + length.
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