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Evolution of C (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC it's garbage collected, so really it's just a version of Java.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It does not use a GC

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it's not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that's it.