[Tinycc-devel] Re : Is anyone on the C standards committee?

[david . koch]

Switch to vlang ?

"C standards committee", let me chuckle a bit. Have you seen what they call 
"standards" ? Bitfield ordering anyone ?

Yeah, C is becoming quite a dumpster of "ideas" and "features", a programming 
language "freak" of many "extensions".

What's rather strange is the constant need to keep C "relevant" while 
maintaining historical "quirks" for "compatibility".

I thought that Python would avoid the same fate, but it has become quite a mess 
too, despite the version 3 "sanitation".

I think if you want a relatively "stable" yet recent/decent "low level" 
programming language might be rust, I guess.

Yet it is nowhere close to the size and speed of TCC, hence I proposed to take 
the vlang route, even though it is alpha.

Regards.

----- Mail d'origine -----
De: Charles Lohr <lohr85@gmail.com>
À: tinycc-devel@nongnu.org
Envoyé: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:55:00 +0100 (CET)
Objet: [Tinycc-devel] Is anyone on the C standards committee?

I was just wondering if anyone from TCC on the standards committee?  I just
really hope for a compiler as popular as TCC, there's someone there
defending the interests of all the not-GCC, not-clang compilers, where
difficulty of feature addition is a paramount concern.  I use TCC as my
daily driver, and I have been increasingly anxious about some of the
proposals and things that are being added to the C standard.

Charles