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No, there is an incomplete proposal for it here though: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/1451 What would you like to use it for?…

I know it’s hard.

You could do faultdef FOO, // comment BAR, // comment QUX; // comment There are third party tools to generate docs. You can also get some…

Odin isn’t as well known as Zig, true. But what you seemed to argue was that this was a deliberate choice by the Odin community: to look for hype on Hacker News rather than doing the leg work of getti…

What works for Rust works for Rust. My intent is to make code feel similar to C namespacing. What works and what doesn’t is fairly contextual, depending other language semantics as well.

Destructors and Ownership implies RAII and all the design and architecture that are assumed with such things. This is far from C semantics, and so out of scope for C3. Any RAII language will be consid…

I asked and got Bas's[1] permission to use C3 as a name when I first started out. [1] Bas van den Berg, the author of C2.

It is possible to use a single-header library as part of C3 libraries or your project. However, it must be noted that this will inhibit the ability to cross compile, as the compilation of the header i…

C3 allows arbitrary extensions of any types, so things like `vec1.dot(vec2)` is actually implemented as a generic method macro over all vector types added by the math module. Given Zig's preferen…

Back in the day when C's closest competitor was Pascal, C wasn't particularly hard to use. Pascal was easier for manipulating strings and C better at doing low level data manipulation. But a…

No, they are the same.

Ah, that is indeed true. However, the plan is to have the language fixed at 1.0, only updating stdlib and tooling after that.

If you want to have your own Base32 where giving a padding = 0xFF instead returns an error, it's commonplace to have a wrapper that will explicitly do the check and return an error if it fails, a…

For grabbing the CPU features, there is some rudimentary implementation for x86 here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/master/lib/std/core/priva...…

Yes: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c... …

The hard thing is staying with the project. Lots of interesting C-like projects have died over time, such as https://www.kitlang.org …

I tried Zig in 2017-2018 span (and as part of research I've read quite a bit of Zig over the years). To me the language had some details not previously tried out: special operators for wrapping o…

There is an overlap between module and class namespacing through static members and functions. Zig sees this and says "let's only have the latter" (on structs), which means among other …

I don't like to say "never", because other things make change that invalidates previous conclusions. For example, let's say that for some reason macros were removed (this is very …

Now I'm confused, what do you mean? What grammar changes?

It's a good language, you should try it out as well.

(Funny story, I seem to have a bout of visual migraine at the moment and misread your comment until just now and had to remove what I wrote). I didn't mean to give the impression that I'm pu…

If I would have liked, I could have done something like `import std::io::file as file;` but I noticed that we keep getting this issue that we’re renaming things all of the time, and usually in the sam…

Did you know that Wikipedia editors will aggressively remove Wiki entries about less known languages. There are already several wiki articles on Odin by various authors that have been removed over the…

Blake2 and other hashes are most welcome. As for HashMap you are completely correct: there are many different types of maps that are needed. Concurrent maps, insertion ordered maps etc. And even varia…

This is not that novel. It is inspired by the similar feature in the Odin language.

Also, `fn` is used to make type inference for lambdas syntactically simple. But I would lie if I said I haven’t been considering removing `fn` many times. But there are good reasons for keeping it, de…

Isn’t it a somewhat unfair characterization that ”C3 promotes itself more” and ”is pushed on HN and other social media” and that because of this C2 for some reason experiences harm? C2 is over 11 year…

The difference here is that a preprocessor runs before parsing and semantic analysis. In C3 compile time if runs in the analysis step, so after parsing. So the macros and compile time execution occurs…

Yes, this is a very real problem that I've also written about: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c... …