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by Arch-TK 1170 days ago
I know C is never getting anything like this. But C is really just stuck being a very crappy ABI design language.

I do wish things like Rust had native support for stuff like this though.

And it really doesn't have to get in the way of anyone who insists on the more primitive type systems, but it would be nice to have a high level language which didn't have assembly-level (of abstraction) integer types. Why should I care that my machine works with square multiples of 8 bits at a time or care that they have specific wrapping behaviour.