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The C23 edition of Modern C

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397 points bwidlar | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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belter ◴[15 Oct 24 17:30 UTC] No.41850897[source]▶
Important reminder just in the Preface :-)

Takeaway #1: "C and C++ are different: don’t mix them, and don’t mix them up"

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pjmlp ◴[15 Oct 24 17:35 UTC] No.41850960[source]▶
Specially relevant to all those folks that insist on "Coding C with a C++ compiler", instead of safer language constructs, and standard library alternatives provided by C++ during the last decades.
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flohofwoe ◴[15 Oct 24 18:04 UTC] No.41851268[source]▶
Funny because for a long time the Microsoft MSVC team explicitly recommended compiling C code with a C++ compiler because they couldn't be arsed to update their C frontend for over two decades (which thankfully has changed now) ;)

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

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rdtsc ◴[15 Oct 24 18:35 UTC] No.41851659[source]▶
That thing always baffled me, this huge company building a professional IDE couldn't figure out how to ship updates to the C compiler.

> it is hard to say no to you, and I’m sorry to say it. But we have to choose a focus, and our focus is to implement (the standard) and innovate (with extensions like everyone but which we also contribute for potential standardization) in C++.

I mean, yeah if it came from a two member team at a startup, sure focus on C++, understandably. But Microsoft, what happened to "Developers! Developers! Developers!"?

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1. AlotOfReading ◴[15 Oct 24 19:03 UTC] No.41851984{4}[source]▶
Funnily enough, the intellisense parser does support C syntax because it's using a commercial frontend by edison under the hood. MSVC's frontend doesn't.