New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer)
New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer)
Posted May 8, 2023 6:20 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer) by bartoc
Parent article: New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer)
Having encountered lambda in C++, I am convinced it is utter insanity to add this otherwise nice feature to a language that does not have automatic memory management. In C++ it is practically optimized for generating hard to find memory bugs. Please do not add it to C, please!
Posted May 10, 2023 0:31 UTC (Wed)
by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188)
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New C features in GCC 13 (Red Hat Developer)
Rust does not have these problems, but that is because lifetime mistakes using closures are caught by the compiler.