C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
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C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
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#2What does powered by Huawei mean? Are they what Mozilla is to Rust?
Re: C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
#3What does powered by Huawei mean? Are they what Mozilla is to Rust?
Probably funding the research
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#4Could someone expand on why Rust "isn't a systems language"?
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#5Could someone expand on why Rust "isn't a systems language"?
I think that, in their words, of its "restrictive memory management".
Re: C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
#6Linked page explains rationale, see also the list of features : https://cforall.uwaterloo.ca/features/
Re: C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
#7I'm sure a lot of very smart people are working on this, and I don't want to detract from their dedication, but man this language looks like a mess. And in no small part because it wants to be backwards compatible with C (the reasoning is unconvincing -- why not just use C++?).
In the age of Go and Rust, which already have a hard time finding niches, I don't really think there's any room for a language like this. And on the other hand, from a research standpoint, it's probably a lot more interesting to build a new language from the ground up.
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#8Could someone expand on why Rust "isn't a systems language"?
I think that assertion muddles their argument.
Their key points seem to be that Rust (and other existing languages) lack backwards compatibility and have different memory management strategies. Lumping Rust in with GC languages is confusing.
Whether either of those things matter is another story. From using TypeScript, I'm personally inclined to believe that a superset of a difficult language can't solve all of the underlying problems, while a totally new language can.
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#9Does this have implications for low-level backdoors/exploits?
Re: C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
#10Linked page explains rationale, see also the list of features : https://cforall.uwaterloo.ca/features/
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