Gregory's Server@typeswitch The exact type of C I have spent 20+ years intentionally avoiding writing.
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 @mos_8502 @typeswitch All that being said, I still like the man-page formatting for reference documentation. You can have the most pristinely architected C code in the world, but if I can't wrap my head around the over-arching architecture and/or how pieces fit together, the first place I will go to will be the API documentation for help.  @mos_8502 @typeswitch I've never programmed in C professionally, but love me some good software engineering. What do you mean by "manual retain release" and "deinit" functions? Do you have any example I can learn from? |
@typeswitch Your criticism is dead on accurate. I’ve made one of my life goals to write C like someone who actually wants a human being to comprehend it.
I design opaque types that get passed around as pointers with no direct access to member variables, only through a tailored API. I use proper structural return types (result/status tuple structures). I use GC or manual retain release with deinit functions instead of malloc/free wrappers to manage lifetimes. I strive to be an example of what C can be if effort is applied.
@typeswitch Your criticism is dead on accurate. I’ve made one of my life goals to write C like someone who actually wants a human being to comprehend it.
I design opaque types that get passed around as pointers with no direct access to member variables, only through a tailored API. I use proper structural return types (result/status tuple structures). I use GC or manual retain release with deinit functions instead of malloc/free wrappers to manage lifetimes. I strive to be an example of what C can...