Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?

Post by imhoguy » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 10:35 PM UTC

malux85 wrote: post #27

mightybyte wrote: post #24

So I'm sure lots of people will think that this definitely doesn't qualify as "Best language to share code...", but Haskell has stuff for getting web, desktop, iOS, and Android out of one code base. It's called Obelisk ( https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk ) and it's actually getting to be a pretty good development experience.

I love hacker news. This is the comment I came here for. Just use this : A language that is (at best) fringe on the platform you are using. Here's a toolset nobody has ever heard of. Now build your mission critical bit of infrastructure on this house of cards, wait for the toolset maintainers to be outpaced and under-resourced by underlying OS/platform changes and then have to rewrite the whole thing which if it does…

Post by naniwaduni » Fri, Nov 01, 2019, 4:06 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #109

naniwaduni wrote: post #99

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strncpy notoriously doesn't necessarily 0-terminate. (It also always pads the full length with zeroes if necessary, so it's almost never what you actually want to do.) The C standard library is full of these footguns. I won't say C++ doesn't have its bad parts, and I certainly wouldn't say that it's impossible to avoid the bad parts of C (some would), but you probably aren't going to manage.

If all of your string manipulation is working with the knowledge of the maximum size, how is that any different than the standard Pascal or BSTR string handling where the size of the string can be found in the first two bytes of the string? The typical error case with C is something like char *a = “abcd”; //5 bytes char *b = “efgh”; char c[8]; strcpy(c,a); strcat(c,b); //buffer overflow by 1 byte. If you used the “n”…