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▲ CobaltC – The Successor to C?(strawberry9.github.io)
13 points by SilentLambda 3 hours ago | 17 comments
▲ethin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.

▲thinkafter an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice

▲hyperhello 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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▲ronsor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?

[0] https://c3-lang.org

▲jjtheblunt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.

▲strenholme an hour ago | parent [-]

To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. Maybe the parent poster doesn’t like their names, but they are fixed sized, as follows:

  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-types
▲rurban 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unsafe identifiers, prone to homoglyph attacks. No TR39 provisions. Worse than rust or Java. https://strawberry9.github.io/the-wrong-memory/Appendix_06.h...

▲ternaryoperator an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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."

▲pizlonator an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This doesnt seems to be meaningfully different from Rust.

> 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 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.

▲nextaccountic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

every spec is implementable

some just delegate more or less to the implementation

▲nextaccountic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

that said, the borrowing part is incredibly short on details

i 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

▲yoklov 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is certainly copying off Rust's homework...

▲Fordec 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.

▲irishcoffee an hour ago | parent [-]

And cloudflare still somehow shipped a rust binary that crashed half the internet.

▲katdork 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

and I've had Haskell binaries attempt to use infinite quantities of RAM (looking at an old version of dconf2nix here) and thus crash

▲woodruffw 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Another one?