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by lelanthran 266 days ago
> Just use C++, it's its main feature on top of C.

If you want to and/or can, then go ahead. This is for those people who either don't want to, or can't, use C++.

Are you suggesting only use C++ over C in all situations?
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mgaunard 266 days ago
Yes.
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lelanthran 265 days ago
>> Are you suggesting only use C++ over C in all situations?

> Yes.

You cannot imagine any situation where that proposal is a non-starter? Or a deal-breaker?

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mgaunard 265 days ago
Not in most places. Even GCC moved to build their C code as C++.
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lelanthran 265 days ago
> Not in most places.

So you can imagine that C++ instead of C is a deal-breaker or show-stopper in some places, right?

Now that we both agree that there are some communities who won't move off C, do you believe that those communities should never get any upgrade, security fixes, etc?

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