alt Hacker NewsWhy is this a relevant comment? We're talking about C, not C++. If you wanted to suggest using an alternative language, you're probably better off recommending Zig: defer takes 0 lines to implement there, and it's closer to C than what C++ is.
Why is this a relevant comment? We're talking about C, not C++. If you wanted to suggest using an alternative language, you're probably better off recommending Zig: defer takes 0 lines to implement there, and it's closer to C than what C++ is.
Everyone reading this (you included) knows full well that unlike Zig/Rust/Odin/whatever, C++ has the special property that you can quite literally* write C code in it, AND you can implement whatever quality of life fixes you need with targeted usage of RAII+templates+macros (defer, bounds checked accesses, result types, whatever).
My comment is targeted towards the programmer who is excited about features like this - you can add an extra two characters to your filename and trivially implement those improvements (and more) yourself, without any alterations to your codebase or day to day programming style.