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by MangoToupe 168 days ago
Is rust simple aesthetics to you? Why use rust, or any language at all really, at all then? The whole point of formal languages is to point a gun at the people who refuse to be adults.

If we can't have this, C itself offers zero benefit over assembly.

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I think it's more in the spirit of playfulness, like in "don't take yourself too seriously". It's why people want to mod Minecraft and Doom for example.

Because it's fun.

I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do this though - the plethora of incompatible lisp dialects come to mind. That's why I said it was controversial.

You don't think assembly is more tedious to write than C? I don't think that's because of what C does/doesn't "allow" you to do.
Of course it is. C does allow named functions and variables. C doesn’t allow arbitrary jumps.

Those are two reasons why C is less tedious than assembly.

> C doesn’t allow arbitrary jumps.

Have you heard of longjmp?