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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: 0s | 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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wffurr ◴[06 May 25 18:10 UTC] No.43908024[source]▶
This seems like such an obvious thing to have - where is it? Zig, Odin, etc. all seem much more ambitious.
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steveklabnik ◴[06 May 25 18:24 UTC] No.43908123[source]▶
There have been attempts over the years. See here, a decade ago: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287

> eventually I came to the depressing conclusion that there’s no way to get a group of C experts — even if they are knowledgable, intelligent, and otherwise reasonable — to agree on the Friendly C dialect. There are just too many variations, each with its own set of performance tradeoffs, for consensus to be possible.

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1. wffurr ◴[07 May 25 12:30 UTC] No.43914808[source]▶
That was fascinating reading and a graveyard of abandoned "better C" dialects: SaferC, Friendly C, Checked C, etc.