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Re:Solod: Go can be a better C on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:18PM (#48954544)
Is the author even aware of C tooling?
Re:Solod: Go can be a better C on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:14PM (#48954506)
> C++ killed off some of C's killer low-level features like type-punning via unions

Yet all major C++ compilers support it.

Re:Rewriting Bun in Rust on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:09AM (#48843486)
I just glanced at it, but in "Rust supports cross-language link-time optimization between C/C++ and Rust" it's not Rust but LLVM.

Any languages with LLVM backends get cross-language LTO for free.

Have they ever tried Zig Bun with LTO?

Re:WSL container is now available for public preview on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:25AM (#48728472)
NTFS is case sensitive.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:56PM (#44037026)
If on WSL2, they need

[interop]

appendWindowsPath=false

section in /etc/wsl.conf.

Then everything will go flawlessly.

Re:A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:41AM (#43715959)
Absolutely.

Quite a long time ago I was working on a some business application's reporting facility.

It used to take about an hour, and my development reduced this time to a 1 or 2 seconds ballpark.

This was HUGE. And changed the way users create these reports forever.

Re:Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:58AM (#41693994)
AFAUI, this extension uses proprietary C++ front-end commercially licensed from EDG.

The same front-end powers their Visual Studio IDE (not Code).

Also, AFAIK, there exist an alternative `clangd`-based C++ extension, which is fully open-source (but I could be wrong).

Re:GitUI on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:39AM (#38912542)
And using `libgit2`, written in C, for heavy-lifting.
Re:Far Manager: files and archives in Windows on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:13AM (#37106622)
The very existence of Far Manager makes me stay on Windows.
Re:Ownership and Borrowing in D on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:35AM (#20448438)
"wouldn't necessarily be able"

It goes completely against the most (perhaps) fundamental part of C++ philosophy of overloading functions on argument types.

Re:Google to close engineering office in Russia on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:47AM (#8739711)
This.