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staunton on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: My favorite C compiler flags during development

I would go further and say that nowadays "people should not use C++ anymore". You need a very good reason to start a big new C or C++ project. Half of such projects should "just be Java" (or C#, maybe even Python, Julia or JS with Electron etc.). The ones where C/C++ would have originally really made sense should now be Rust or Zig.

cinntaile on April 30, 2023 [–]

Is Zig really stable enough for that? The other languages you mention are much more mature.

jedisct1 on April 30, 2023 | [–]

Zig hasn't reached 1.0 yet, but in my experience, it's stable enough to write code that has to be maintained long term.

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