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Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)

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271 points mithcs | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 10:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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krapht ◴[17 Nov 25 12:41 UTC] No.45953071[source]▶
C++: "look at what others must do to mimic a fraction of my power"

This is cute, but also I'm baffled as to why you would want to use macros to emulate c++. Nothing is stopping you from writing c-like c++ if that's what you like style wise.

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sesm ◴[17 Nov 25 14:43 UTC] No.45954009[source]▶
Embedded CPU vendors not shipping C++ compilers is what usually stops people.
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kjs3 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:57 UTC] No.45955450[source]▶
Yup. And I like the implication that Rust is 'cross platform', when it's 'tier 1' support consists of 2 architectures (x86 & arm64). I guess we're converging on a world where those 2 + riscv are all that matter to most people, but it's not yet a world where they are all that matter to all people.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html

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1. dontlaugh ◴[17 Nov 25 18:43 UTC] No.45956560[source]▶
The converging is happening in practice. I’m using a keyboard running RMK for firmware, written in Rust.