On: Go Slices Are Fat Pointers

[WalterBright]

I haven't officially proposed it, but every time I've shown it to C people they're just silent - no response.

But anyway, you can use D in BetterC mode and have bounds checked slices!

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

[kryptiskt → WalterBright]

You might be interested in this paper: "CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment" https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/28/cheri-abi/

[x0re4x → WalterBright]

I would interpret the silence of C people as "Thanks, but no, thanks." The success of C for such long time without having fat pointers, exceptions, RAII, etc... is probably an indication they weren't needed that much.

(Jonathan Blow: Ideas about a new programming language for games.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ&list=PLmV5I2fxai...

[pjmlp → x0re4x]

C´s success is just like PHP and JavaScript successes.

When a language owns the platform its quality comes second.

[inlined → pjmlp]

Languages are maintained by people. When people have a monopoly quality comes second.

[pjmlp → inlined]

Whose interests are to push certain platforms.