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I do not think the criticism of Xorg is really correct. At its core, it is actually a nice and well-designed protocol. It is also rock-solid, works without any problem in all my configurations, and s…

I used C++ for some time, but then went back to C. Why? Fast compilation, lower complexity, long-term stability, wide support.

It is clean (compared to what it was before) and reliable. Cheap was never a target. In fact, household prices are artificially and intentionally (as by design) kept high to promote conservation. Aver…

I do not think you can conclude anything from household prices. Those are artificially kept low in France and artificially kept high in Germany. Market prices are similar (higher at the moment in Fran…

The problem in Germany is that for heating, transportation, and industry the transition to renewables or more efficient methods is very slow. For the electricity sector (which is the most relevant whe…

This has nothing to do with C++: https://godbolt.org/z/zTe8jocsE

Generics can not reliably be optimized. They create specialized inline code by monomorphization (except partially in Go which is a bit smarter). Specialization and inlining can be good if it leads to …

So here is my C version: https://godbolt.org/z/zTe8jocsE Now tell me I need generics for this to get optimized. (Generics are useful for type safety, which you can add using mac…

Why do you cite "net power generation capacity" when you care about use? Actual generation: https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/STR..…

Assumptions are all wrong. Total output decreased from 632 TWh in 2010 to 588 TWh in 2021. Coal and lignite decreased substantially 117 TWh + 146 TWh in 2010 to 55 TWh + 110 TWh in 2021 (with a subs…

At the moment half of France's nuclear plants are down for months and France is relying on imports. But this no the argument against nuclear. The argument against nuclear is that it simply is…

It is not enough to check your unsafe code for UB, you also need to make sure it does not violate the invariants Rust relies on to prove the safe code safe.

What do you want to use it for? C++ uses it for the compile-time programming together with templates. Essentially C++ evolves into a language where you write a program that gets interpreted at compil…

Although many compilers allow const int X = 33; enum { Y = X };

Yes, almost. But it misses optional features and common extensions.

Compilers can already do this: https://godbolt.org/z/jMMa8n48r Yes, putting them into structs is a missing feature. It is not in the draft because no compiler can do it and their…

There a couple of open source C compilers TCC, SDCC, tendra, chibicc, ACK, LCC, PCC, etc. and also many commercial ones. It is true that GCC is not written in C anymore, but it is easy to see that the…

C23 will get support for checked integer operations that report overflow.

There are plenty of C compilers written in C. Large compiler suites for C/C++ are usually written in C++. But as a contributor to GCC, I can say that large parts of the code still look very much …

(first, I am not a D user but I really like what I have seen. I wish WG14 would take more inspiration from D than from C++) C23 will require 2s-complement. Signed overflow is still UB in C. I think th…

I fully agree with all you said. Some comments: - we have proposal for provenance rules (N2676), which would clarify the rules and make sure that pointer-integer roundtrips work (now broken on some co…

(disclaimer: also a WG14 member) 1. I want this too. 2. Here is my proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2366.pdf 3. Yes, variadic functi…