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babaceca

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    Comment #45186841

    Reality isn't on your side. 1. A lot of people use the old C standards. 2. Not a lot of people use the new ones. 3. A lot of useful software is written in C. 4. Not a lot of useful…

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    Comment #45186582

    > there might be some dependence on what you mean by "useful". I should've been clearer about that, but what I mean by that is pretty much what a normal non-technical person would …

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    Comment #45180482

    > So to claim that the C programmers do not want change, first you need to ignore the vast majority that do want but already dropped C... Good, we can ignore them. It's not a langu…

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    Comment #45179202

    There's no assertion required by spec. To the brain of a compiler writer UB means "the standard doesn't specify what should happen, therefore I can optimize with the assumption UB …

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    Comment #45178941

    The vast majority of C programmers will agree that they don't care for any of the new features, as is clearly evident by the fact that almost nobody elects to use the latest standa…

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    Comment #43706584

    I've worked at both a casino company and a large mobile game studio, and the latter was way shadier in almost all aspects. There's a list of 20-ish large companies we univerally ag…