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by dnautics 2019 days ago
> Zig is a lot more complex than C

Well if you include preprocessor, make, and cmake (which I think is basically standard now), the level of complexity feels "close to parity".
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MaxBarraclough 2019 days ago
Including CMake is downright unsporting ;-P
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dnautics 2019 days ago
Most modern professional C projects do use it. You kind of can't get away.
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MaxBarraclough 2019 days ago
We're agreed. I use it for my personal C++ projects. It's really quite awful (I've ranted about it on HN more than once [0][1]) but it's still the least bad choice.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565266

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