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Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by dman »

baby wrote: post #380
dman wrote: post #379

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So we agree that we have different tools with different tradeoffs?

Of course, for now. But I still disagree that it is as easy (or hard) to write C without bugs as in any other languages. Most people should not write C.

In the same vein - if you happen to be stuck in a problem domain where counting/avoiding allocations is important the other languages I listed above (even C++ really) make things very hard. Rust has a decent take on building a safer c++ (with what appears to be C++ levels of complexity). Would like something similar to emerge for C.

Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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steveklabnik wrote: post #368
nineteen999 wrote: post #227

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That's great to see even if it's still early days. Thank you also for being a great proponent for the Rust community, your thoughtful and considered answers here have helped convince me to look into Rust more over the longer term, whereas the foam-at-the-mouth types completely send me in the other direction.

So the Ready at Dawn folks just put this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-txrCMvdms&feature=youtu.be ... this is one of the most interesting introductions to a Rust package that I've ever seen.

Yes I saw that not long after our discussion. Definitely interesting stuff and I agree, marvelously presented.
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