I don't want to attack the OP specifically (please don't go after them), and I won't argue directly with the C++ part, but C is a terrible C. Later on the OP bemoans fragmentation, but Go is a way better C than C ever was, and Rust is a way better C++.https://twitter.com/landley/status/983060536714780672 …
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I really don’t think Go brings anything to the table, FWIW.
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Things I actually want from a “better C”: - support for manipulating alignment in the language. - idiomatic bitcast. - vectors in the language. - machine model with twos-comp, CHAR_BIT=8, IEEE 754, flat memory. - restrict-by-default. ...
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This looks promising http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html …
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Yes, my request list is pretty close to LLVM and C-as-implemented-by-clang.
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restrict-by-default is a pretty tall order though…in C at least ;)
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