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by mav3ri3k 656 days ago
Fair enough. I have personally experienced pain with phantoms.

But then what would you advice to do ? There are nightmare patterns in rust and c++. Looks to me as pick your poison just that one is new and other has been around for fair bit.
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zeroCalories 656 days ago
Looking at Typescript, the latest successful language, I think the way forward is to make C and C++ safe by gradually adding and deprecating features.
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mav3ri3k 656 days ago
I am sorry. I really don't see your point. Typescript is in a completely different league of languages than rust/c/c++ with vastly different use cases.

Also, the world still mostly speaks C99 when iterative improvements are constantly being made up to C23.

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zeroCalories 656 days ago
The point is that Typescript was able to replace JavaScript by adding to it. Converting a codebase from js to ts was simple. Going from C++ to Rust is not.

I think C23 is going in the right direction, but it needs to go further.

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drawfloat 656 days ago
Typescript isn’t a separate language though, nor does it replace Javascript, you’re comparing apples and oranges.
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