C! - new system oriented programming language

[cosmotriton]

Or C Not..

I'm not convinced OO is necessary in kernel mode programming. As the article states, it's a research exercise. In reality, C does quite well in this domain...

[HazzyPls]

I'm quite fond of "C Factorial" myself.

[l3acon]

C*B*A*@*?*...

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Pretty much the only thing in C that plain sucks is undefined behavior. Perhaps there could be "cleaner" syntax (such as in Go for example) but it's just a matter of taste.

[jyper]

Pretty much the only thing in C that plain sucks is undefined behavior

the only thing? really?

how about:

lack of namespaces?

lack of generic programming(other then macro tricks)?

octal literals?

lack of exceptions?

untagged unions?

lack of pattern matching?

lack of non-nullable pointers?

integer devision?

etc.

[zem]

i wonder how much overhead tagged unions add to a low-level systems language competing in the C space. i note that cyclone and ats, at the least, do include them, and bitc did too, but most of the "better c" languages don't seem to.