CobaltC – The Successor to C?

(strawberry9.github.io)

9 points | by SilentLambda 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • ethin 0 minutes ago
    This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.
  • pizlonator 5 minutes ago
    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.)

  • ronsor 40 minutes ago
    Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?

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

    • jjtheblunt 15 minutes ago
      C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.
  • drgo 1 hour ago
    reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.
    • nextaccountic 34 minutes ago
      every spec is implementable

      some just delegate more or less to the implementation

      • nextaccountic 31 minutes ago
        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 37 minutes ago
    This is certainly copying off Rust's homework...
    • Fordec 23 minutes ago
      Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.
      • irishcoffee 4 minutes ago
        And cloudflare still somehow shipped a rust binary that crashed half the internet.