On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 6:40:20 PM UTC-5, Vanessa McHale wrote:
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> To me the main appeal of C over ATS is the existence of a standard and
> several competing compilers. It's just a more stable language and there's
> guarantees of better support. C features are documented and there are
To me the main appeal of C over ATS is the existence of a standard and
several competing compilers. (I also like the fact that C has an ABI,
but then ATS benefits from this as well :)). It's just a more stable
language and there's guarantees of better support. C features are
documented and there
Prompted by Zig's 0.3.0 release, I thought about ATS3 a little
more. Zig prompted that in two different ways: first, the release
notes had this charming assertion: "Zig intends to be so practical
that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it."
Second, while considering Zig, although
