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CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)
ethin 1 hours ago [-]
This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.
thinkafter 1 hours ago [-]
I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice
hyperhello 34 minutes ago [-]
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rurban 19 minutes ago [-]
Unsafe identifiers, prone to homoglyph attacks. No TR39 provisions. Worse than rust or Java. https://strawberry9.github.io/the-wrong-memory/Appendix_06.h...
ronsor 2 hours ago [-]
Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?

[0] https://c3-lang.org

jjtheblunt 1 hours ago [-]
C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.
strenholme 1 hours ago [-]
To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. Maybe the parent poster doesn’t like their names, but they are fixed sized, as follows:

  Name    Size    Signed
  bool    1       no
  ichar   8       yes
  char    8       no
  short   16      yes
  ushort  16      no
  int     32      yes
  uint    32      no
  long    64      yes
  ulong   64      no
  int128  128     yes
  uint128 128     no
Source: https://c3-lang.org/language-overview/types/#integer-types
ternaryoperator 58 minutes ago [-]
It's great to have it all spec'd out. However, I think specs like this suffer the same fate as war plans: they get modified quickly as soon as implementation begins. Nonetheless, it's good to have a clear idea of where you're headed. I just wouldn't call it "Final."
pizlonator 1 hours ago [-]
This doesnt seems to be meaningfully different from Rust.

> does not require tracing garbage collection

Just call it garbage collection.

(Applies in two ways: if you think that garbage collection subsumes reference counting then this language doesn’t require garbage collection in the sense that it also doesn’t require reference counting; if you think that garbage collection does not subsume reference counting then there’s no point in saying three words when you can say two.)

drgo 2 hours ago [-]
reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.
nextaccountic 2 hours ago [-]
every spec is implementable

some just delegate more or less to the implementation

nextaccountic 2 hours ago [-]
that said, the borrowing part is incredibly short on details

i read trying to assess if it's more or less expressible than rust's current nll or the future polonius and honestly there's nothing there

yoklov 2 hours ago [-]
This is certainly copying off Rust's homework...
Fordec 2 hours ago [-]
Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.
irishcoffee 1 hours ago [-]
And cloudflare still somehow shipped a rust binary that crashed half the internet.
katdork 22 minutes ago [-]
and I've had Haskell binaries attempt to use infinite quantities of RAM (looking at an old version of dconf2nix here) and thus crash
woodruffw 28 minutes ago [-]
Another one?
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