| ▲ | swyx 14 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
why is that impt to you? just trying to understand the problem you couldnt solve without a C-like | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ryao 14 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I want to write C code, not C++ code. Even if I try to write C style C++, it is more verbose and less readable, because of various C++isms. For example, having to specify extern “C” to get sane ABI names for the Nvidia CUDA driver API: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-driver-api/index.html Not to mention that C++ does not support neat features like variable sized arrays on the stack. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | kevmo314 14 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
A strict C variant would indeed be quite nice. I've wanted to write CUDA kernels in Go apps before so the Go app can handle the concurrency on the CPU side. Right now, I have to write a C wrapper and more often than not, I end up writing more code in C++ instead. But then I end up finding myself juggling mutexes and wishing I had some newer language features. | |||||||||||||||||