Nothing, just 45 minutes into trying to add a minimal testing framework to a C program, with meson and all.
Use Rust, kids.
@federicomena Rust isn't the only alternative to C though
@lanodan @federicomena is there any other better alternative?
Let's not say c++, i beg you.
@lorabe @federicomena Depends on what you do, C allows to do a lot of things and it took and still takes a lot of space.
Go, zig, haskell, erlang, … easily come to my mind as replacements to C.
But in a way, so is stuff like lua, perl, python, …
Heck, Java which I feel detached itself from being a replacement used to be presented as one. (see https://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html for the old thoughts)
And C++ isn't an alternative to C, it's severely based on C and then forked far away while to me a good replacement stands by itself and often has a comparable degree of complexity.
btw I take Rust as a replacement to C++, not C.
Go, zig, haskell, erlang, … easily come to my mind as replacements to C.
But in a way, so is stuff like lua, perl, python, …
Heck, Java which I feel detached itself from being a replacement used to be presented as one. (see https://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html for the old thoughts)
And C++ isn't an alternative to C, it's severely based on C and then forked far away while to me a good replacement stands by itself and often has a comparable degree of complexity.
btw I take Rust as a replacement to C++, not C.
@lanodan @lorabe @federicomena
>Heck, Java which I feel detached itself from being a replacement used to be presented as one.
How can a VM language be a replacement for C?
@xianc78 @lorabe @federicomena There is almost no such thing as a "VM" language.
And the point of a language is to write software, if you can write a whole category of software in another language, well, wouldn't that other language be a replacement?
And the point of a language is to write software, if you can write a whole category of software in another language, well, wouldn't that other language be a replacement?
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@lanodan @lorabe @federicomena I don't think you can write an OS kernel in Java.
Heck, mobile applications have been written in Java for decades (most feature phones were already using Java) while I wouldn't be surprised to learn that embedded/mobile applications was were C was almost irreplaceable in the past.
Sure, the kernel and bare-embedded stuff is where C is the most irreplaceable at but that's not the only thing C allows or allowed.