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by Ryan Harman

CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)

9 points by SilentLambda 2 hours ago

ethin 12 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.

thinkafter 4 minutes ago

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

pizlonator 17 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 an hour ago

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

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

jjtheblunt 27 minutes ago

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

strenholme 5 minutes ago

To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. I think the parent poster doesn’t like their name, 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

drgo an hour ago

reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.

nextaccountic an hour ago

every spec is implementable

some just delegate more or less to the implementation

nextaccountic 43 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 an hour ago

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

Fordec 35 minutes ago

Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.

irishcoffee 16 minutes ago

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