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Oh, I think you missed something then: There is both `$if` and `$switch` compile time statements for this: https://c3-lang.org/generic-programming/compiletime/#if-and-... At…

But you have to. Ambiguities hint at lack of redundancies that also affects code reading. When you quickly scan something like `file.open` vs `file::open` the former is also more unclear to a reader w…

C3 has "path shortening", so for example given `open(...)` in std::io::file is usually used as `file::open(...)`. If we would to write this as `file.open(...)`. Consider now the case of mist…

C3 follows the C ABI, so no it doesn't do it and it's not planned.

What kind of conditional compilation are you missing?

Other than C3, there is Jai, Odin, Zig and Hare which are the ones that have any traction right now that I know of. Many interesting projects have been started but ultimately later abandoned. Going to…

Just to be clear, I don't mean the description of Zig to put down the language or the community. It's the best I can do to describe the difference between Zig on one hand and Odin/C3 on…

If you pass them as parameters, then there are in/out/inout annotations to limit usage. But other than that, there isn't anything.

For what it's worth, I found the Zig community on the biggest Zig discord very nice and welcoming. But that said , there is a lot of "you have to understand Zig" sentiment. Also, the…

Did you see this? https://c3-lang.org/language-common/cinterop/

I wrote a short blogpost about this before, trying to answer the question: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8886-why_does_c3_use_%252... …

As the author, let me add something beyond the comparison. Zig and Odin are very different languages, Odin is – as its slogan goes - "for the Joy of Programming". Zig on the other hand doesn…

`::` simplifies the module vs identifier resolution. In C3 there is something called "path shortening", allowing you to use `foo::bar()` in place of something like `std::baz::foo::bar()`. To…

The other articles on C3 can found here: https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/ …

1. C is universal, any other language is a dependency. 2. If you're using something like C# or Kotlin or whatever, then you're not serious about compilation speed. 3. You will need to provid…

No, just no

The QBE author has said that good compilation speed was not a design goal. It also outputs asm which then has to be run through GCC or Clang, which nullifies any benefit of being a standalone backend.

There isn't anything official. Tonis maintains an "Awesome C3" repo on GitHub: https://github.com/tonis2/Awesome.c3 (curation is all done by Tonis, I don't ha…

Feel free to post any questions about C3 and compiler dev in the comments.

I find that the hard part with designing macros and other metaprogramming constructs that run at compile time is not adding POWER - that part is easy, but to make it readable and easy to understand. I…

Some people love this, some think it’s a necessary sacrifice - a rite of passage to endure in order to produce ”optimal” software. Others try Odin or C3 instead.

`goto` is trivial to implement. `goto` doing the right thing jumping over `defer` and implicitly unwrapping optionals (flow-typing) is less nice as you suddenly need to track much more things in the f…