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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: 2.321s | 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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vitaminka ◴[16 Oct 24 03:31 UTC] No.41855343[source]▶
these features will eventually trickle down into the mainstream, kind of like C11 is doing at the moment

also, unless you're targeting embedded or a very wide set of architectures, there's no reason why you couldn't start using C23 today

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bboygravity ◴[16 Oct 24 05:21 UTC] No.41855853[source]▶
Or in other words, for embedded and existing code: most use c99, some use c11 and nobody uses c23 until at least 10 years from now.
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vitaminka ◴[16 Oct 24 05:49 UTC] No.41855982[source]▶
most non-embedded and non-legacy codebases could use c23, that's not an insignificant set
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1. bboygravity ◴[19 Oct 24 09:50 UTC] No.41886816[source]▶
I would argue that is an insignificant set.

Unless you think that code-bases created in the past year are a significant part of code bases that have been created since the inception of humanity.