Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by anon25783 » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

Beebo, a wave simulator written in C
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Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

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Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by skulk » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 7:49 AM UTC

Interesting use of macros to get a generic "result" thingy:

https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/tree/master/item/src/result...

I think it's cool that stuff like this works in C but my gut feeling is that this isn't going to play well with LSP tools. Are state-of-the-art C LSP servers aware of the preprocessor?

Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by bertylicious » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 8:39 AM UTC

skulk wrote: post #3

Interesting use of macros to get a generic "result" thingy: https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/tree/master/item/src/result... I think it's cool that stuff like this works in C but my gut feeling is that this isn't going to play well with LSP tools. Are state-of-the-art C LSP servers aware of the preprocessor?

I don't see an advantage over C's usual error handling, because this type is lacking the support functions (like bind and fmap in functional languages) or syntax integration (like the try operator in rust) that would make it useful.

Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by schmuckonwheels » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

Rest in peace, Sky King.

Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by whou » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

skulk wrote: post #3

Interesting use of macros to get a generic "result" thingy: https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/tree/master/item/src/result... I think it's cool that stuff like this works in C but my gut feeling is that this isn't going to play well with LSP tools. Are state-of-the-art C LSP servers aware of the preprocessor?

yes, C LSP servers can deal with the preprocessor just fine, even the trickier C preprocessor "hacks". clangd is built on top of clang, after all.

Re: Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

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Post by anon25783 » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

skulk wrote: post #3

Interesting use of macros to get a generic "result" thingy: https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/tree/master/item/src/result... I think it's cool that stuff like this works in C but my gut feeling is that this isn't going to play well with LSP tools. Are state-of-the-art C LSP servers aware of the preprocessor?

I'm using a current version of VS Code with the IntelliSense mode set to `linux-gcc-x64` and it seems to work quite well actually.