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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

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611 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 06 May 25 17:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.326s | source
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markus_zhang ◴[06 May 25 18:09 UTC] No.43908006[source]▶
What if we have a C that removes the quirks without adding too much brain drain?

So no implicit type conversions, safer strings, etc.

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1. uecker ◴[07 May 25 07:33 UTC] No.43913099[source]▶
I have a plan for a safe subset of C which would just require a compiler to warn about certain constructs. I also have a proposal for a safe string type. I am not so sure about type conversions though, you get useful warnings already with existing compiler flags and you can solve the problem in the article already just by wrapping the types in structs.