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Evolution of C(programming.dev)

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files…

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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IIRC it’s garbage collected, so really it’s just a version of Java.

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It does not use a GC

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Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it’s not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that’s it.

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