• lad@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Anything that is drop-in replacement for C (or C++ for that matter) is going to be awful because of the same compatibility burden, imo

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      3 months ago

      D is a mostly drop-in replacement (type renaming and such needed though), and it doesn’t have that issue. D even has a mode called BetterC, where the D standard library and the garbage collector is left out.

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              3 months ago

              Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it’s not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that’s it.

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        3 months ago

        I was planning to check it out, but don’t have any experience yet. I thought it is more of a replacement than drop-in replacement, I may have been wrong