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awson

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    Comment #48954544

    Is the author even aware of C tooling?

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    Comment #48954506

    > C++ killed off some of C's killer low-level features like type-punning via unions Yet all major C++ compilers support it.

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    Comment #48843486

    I just glanced at it, but in "Rust supports cross-language link-time optimization between C/C++ and Rust" it's not Rust but LLVM. Any languages with LLVM backends get cross-languag…

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    Comment #48728472

    NTFS is case sensitive.

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    Comment #44037026

    If on WSL2, they need [interop] appendWindowsPath=false section in /etc/wsl.conf. Then everything will go flawlessly.

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    Comment #43715959

    Absolutely. Quite a long time ago I was working on a some business application's reporting facility. It used to take about an hour, and my development reduced this time to a 1 or 2…

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    Comment #41693994

    AFAUI, this extension uses proprietary C++ front-end commercially licensed from EDG. The same front-end powers their Visual Studio IDE (not Code). Also, AFAIK, there exist an alter…

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    Comment #38912542

    And using `libgit2`, written in C, for heavy-lifting.

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    Comment #37106622

    The very existence of Far Manager makes me stay on Windows.

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    Comment #20448438

    "wouldn't necessarily be able" It goes completely against the most (perhaps) fundamental part of C++ philosophy of overloading functions on argument types.

  11. story
    Russia blocks llvm.org

    Is there any other country doing this?

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