CobaltC – The Successor to C?
13 points by SilentLambda 3 hours ago | 16 comments
ethin 2 hours ago
This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.
replythinkafter 60 minutes ago
I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice
replyhyperhello 30 minutes ago
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replyrurban 14 minutes ago
Unsafe identifiers, prone to homoglyph attacks. No TR39 provisions. Worse than rust or Java. https://strawberry9.github.io/the-wrong-memory/Appendix_06.h...
replyronsor 2 hours ago
Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?
replyjjtheblunt 2 hours ago
C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.
replystrenholme 2 hours ago
To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. Maybe the parent poster doesn’t like their names, but they are fixed sized, as follows:
reply Name Size Signed
bool 1 no
ichar 8 yes
char 8 no
short 16 yes
ushort 16 no
int 32 yes
uint 32 no
long 64 yes
ulong 64 no
int128 128 yes
uint128 128 no
Source: https://c3-lang.org/language-overview/types/#integer-typesternaryoperator 54 minutes ago
It's great to have it all spec'd out. However, I think specs like this suffer the same fate as war plans: they get modified quickly as soon as implementation begins. Nonetheless, it's good to have a clear idea of where you're headed. I just wouldn't call it "Final."
replypizlonator 2 hours ago
This doesnt seems to be meaningfully different from Rust.
reply> does not require tracing garbage collection
Just call it garbage collection.
(Applies in two ways: if you think that garbage collection subsumes reference counting then this language doesn’t require garbage collection in the sense that it also doesn’t require reference counting; if you think that garbage collection does not subsume reference counting then there’s no point in saying three words when you can say two.)
drgo 3 hours ago
reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.
replynextaccountic 2 hours ago
every spec is implementable
replysome just delegate more or less to the implementation
nextaccountic 2 hours ago
that said, the borrowing part is incredibly short on details
replyi read trying to assess if it's more or less expressible than rust's current nll or the future polonius and honestly there's nothing there