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𓀐 @q+5+Dwk?: I fucking did it!!! Now I can make real programs+

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𓀐 @XXH+c~JZ: rv32im fully supported now. Only missing Zicsr extension support to be fully usable+

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𓀐 @6ETJ=DCV: >maybe build a compiler on top You mean write one from scratch?+

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𓀐 @xYmrkNEw: Just like C exposes all the Indians.+

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𓀐 @W4gF?*Hf: It's a fact not a narrative. Why does C sometimes seem especially popular among Indian programmers? There is also a cultural and educational feedback loop: Colleges teach C as a foundational language. Students encounter C in exams and programming exercises. Interview-preparation materials reinforce C and C++ fundamentals. Graduates carry those habits into the workplace and into teaching the next generation. This can make C unusually visible in Indian programming tutorials, online discussions, a…+ 1

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𓀐 @wgY_EF_C: Damn, you seem to know a lot about this, Rahul.+

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𓀐 @A-7xcS_E: What’s a better language than C if you value simplicity and compilation speed over rust’s overbearing safety or C++’s pointless bloat and complexity? I know the answer. It would probably be odin. I wonder if I switched to odin if this random schizo on the internet would stop calling me indian. Hmmm, nope. I think I will continue to write C.+ 1

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𓀐 @g?y7wwqc: Hasn't modern C also gotten some bloat features of its own? Haven't really been keeping tabs on its evolution.+

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𓀐 @b?dGA~N_: Enjoy your segfaults. Meanwhile I won't be making any.+

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𓀐 @zZuePmn9: >just bottle it up and shill what's oppressing you Can't tell if masochism or Stockholm syndrome.+

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𓀐 @Y++6+avs: Yet all /g/eet does is complain about Rust. Segfaults don't explode but they're annoying and worth complaining about. Imagine bottling it in so Cindia's image isn't tarnished. Pure masochism.+ 1

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𓀐 @CLxF3DL*: nobody here is complaining about rust. they just don’t have a use for its rigid paradigm and safety. rust just gets in the way of prototyping so I really don’t care about it, I don’t really think about it. I don’t see someone posting rust code and go “HEY HE CANT JUST DO THAT. TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY”. you on the other hand seem to be completely obsessed with C and anyone that uses it that you literally shitpost the thread to death for weeks on end at the mere mention of it. that’s why you are the…+

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𓀐 @q9tXmsVo: I use C everyday dude. I don’t know what to say at this point other than you are having some kind of skill issue. this shit is not and has never been a big deal+ 1

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𓀐 @VAKTRmMa: There is nothing that screams leet haxor nocoder than unironically saying skill issue. You're just a brown jeet. You have no skills and don't understand the pain of using C. Some dude I know who has an A in modern physics bitches about C++ every day. C's way of doing things is hacky and assbackwards and it's nearly unparsable to compilers.+

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𓀐 @aud~qbQF: Parsing C is notoriously difficult because its grammar is context-sensitive and inherently ambiguous, breaking the clean separation between a compiler's lexer (which turns text into tokens) and its parser (which builds the syntax tree). Unlike modern languages designed to be easily processed with a single token of lookahead (like Go's func or Python's def), C was written in an era before formal grammars were widely adopted for programming languages, prioritizing memory-constrained, single-pass…+ 2

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𓀐 @7~FinqQB: C is slow as molasses on an 8-bit microcomputer. there was a time when C was considered the slow, bloated compiled language believe it or not. C was meant for big, expensive 16-bit minicomputers. BASIC, Pascal and Forth all compiled faster on a typical home computer. Forth is about as low-level as you can go and still be considered a high-level language.+

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𓀐 @_8pDPHX6: This waas LLM generated.+

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𓀐 @v49jUU==: I mostly agree with Terry about smart people admiring simplicity, but I don't think that's entirely possible with massive systems+

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𓀐 @bpxVPhc9: I hate c+

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𓀐 @xUghstPk: C is for indians. They stole it and they can keep it.+

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𓀐 @2nHoub6k: sepples is some gigantic bullshit sometimes, especially when you need something that isn't abstracted away like cross-platform process launching like in Python: >import subprocess >subprocess.run(["nig", "nog"]) and a variety of methods to control it and capture its output, even async during execution. too often it feels like I'm goddamn dastardly and muttley trying to stop the pigeon when programming in C++.+

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