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The C23 edition of Modern C

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515 points bwidlar | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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israrkhan ◴[16 Oct 24 03:18 UTC] No.41855279[source]▶
Most important aspect of C is its portability. From small microcontrollers to almost any computing platform. I doubt that any new version of C will see that much adoption.

If I want to live on cutting edge I would rather use C++2x or Rust rather than C.

Am I missing something? What benefit this supposedly modern C offers?

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BenjiWiebe ◴[16 Oct 24 15:14 UTC] No.41860058[source]▶
Won't any llvm/gcc supported target get the new version of C automatically? You won't get it in the vendor-modified ancient gcc toolchain for some other arch though.
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1. israrkhan ◴[18 Oct 24 00:04 UTC] No.41875088[source]▶
There are many embedded platforms that do not gcc/llvm based compilers.

Also most companies making those platforms are not good at updating their toolchains. Expecting developers to compile their own toolchain, that is unsupported by platform vendor, is too much to ask.

Also GCC dropped support for certain architectures along the way, and even if you are willing to compile your own toolchain, it may not work for you.