About type inference coming to the C language as well

Posted Dec 11, 2023 13:52 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: About type inference coming to the C language as well by Sesse
Parent article: Modern C for Fedora (and the world)

If you're not careful, you end up with something like Wuffs. A perfectly useful language in some domains, but deliberately limited in scope to stop you writing many classes of bug.

About type inference coming to the C language as well

Posted Dec 14, 2023 10:55 UTC (Thu) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424) [Link] (1 responses)

Seems useful to write command-line programs, for example.

About type inference coming to the C language as well

Posted Dec 14, 2023 10:57 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

You're not going to get very far when you can't access arguments, or do I/O. Wuffs is deliberately limited to not doing that, because it's dangerous to mix I/O with file format parsing.