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How is Github a monopoly? Bitbucket, Google Code, and even junky old SourceForge are far from unpopular.

Upvoted. They maintain it by introducing an endless stream of bugs and vulnerabilities.

People are upset because they wanted to be part of the elite club that maybe possibly would have had their DNT header honored, but now that it's likely that a huge percentage of ot…

Is anyone else disappointed that the best answer (the standard div() function) was passed over in favor of massively inefficient bit-twiddling wankery?

Maybe things are different on Dalvik, but javac for the Oracle JVM is about as braindead as a java compiler can get; all of the optimizing is done during JIT.

A rule for multiple output files: output1 output2: deps

Here's a makefile: http://code.google.com/p/min-game/source/browse/makefile Here's the dependency script: http://code.google.com/p/min-game/source/browse/dep.sh Both inspired by co…

"low-level rigid type system" You've never written C.

You still need entities for reserved characters like & and <

There's no difference between implementing method dispatch with multiple inheritance versus multiple interfaces. What do you think C++'s multiple inheritance problems are? As long …

The preprocessor, and conditional compilation especially, are not something to love about C. That is probably one of C's most hateful, code-goop enabling capabilities.

I do mean almost everything; C has many problems: The preprocessor, no modules, annoying to correctly and portably write even seemingly simple things like signed integer calculatio…

Either you don't know Java or you don't know Go, because the way the two do things almost couldn't be more different. The JVM and the requirement that every non-primitive be a clas…

Very few people/projects use Forth… But, I can think of one or two way more popular and significant counterexamples (although I don't disagree with his general sentiment): Perl and…

Go solves almost all of the problems that C introduces, how's that sound?

I'm really surprised that people think consoles are currently a niche market for games, after an example like Call of Duty selling 8.4 million copies in the US in a month, with alm…

The console market is fine and most of what Ars claims has been said at the cusp of every new console generation. The original Playstation came out in 1994 and wasn't discontinued …

Why did you decide to use autoconf?

Clang is not gigabytes big. Even the uncompressed source code for it and LLVM (which are very big) aren't in the gigabytes. http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.0

One of his first examples is additionally absurd and is either the flimsiest of strawmen or he simply doesn't understand when exceptions should be used: try { ... int rc = fx (); i…

Yeah, I miss domo-kun.

Exactly what? C99 doesn't have any killer features that legacy code would need to "update" to. If a C89 program is working, adding unique-to-C99 features isn't going to magically m…

I have severals problems with this. 1) The implication that working legacy code needs to be modified to use C99 features lest it be "out of date". 2) The idea that the world is mov…

You say that like they are removing all C support. Unless that "legacy" code suddenly mutates to use C99 features that aren't in C++, it'll still compile in the future.