C2x: The Future C Standard (habr.com)

17 points by vkazanov 5y ago ↗ HN

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Pity, zero proposals to increase safety when using C is the only option for whatever business reasons.

I'd say that defer-like mechanism would help a lot with memory safety. But it's just a rumour currently.

I was more looking into adoption of any strings and arrays libraries, with proper bounds checking as well, now that Annex K is out of the table.

And stronger enumerations.

I have yet to see any serious discussion around making the standard library less... Spartan.

Sometimes I question my own sanity because my love for this crazy little language :-)

pjmlp 5y ago ↗

Yeah, that is why POSIX exists, the unofficial C standard library.

> the first truly interesting book in years on this language was published

The linked publisher page indicates Seacord's book won't be published until August.

But you can buy it already.

Also, I think they moved the date a bit.

Where did you buy it? It's a preorder on Amazon and on the publisher's page.

I didn't :-) not yet, anyway. Waiting for the finalized version.

The early access pdf should be pretty complete though.

feiss 5y ago ↗

Wow I love the #embed directive..

True! Probably the only relatively big quality-of-life improvement so far.

Reformed error handling in it's current form is not there yet.