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Are you a programmer? Embed is the easiest feature to implement that I have ever heard

• saagarjha 4y ago
  I think the blog post provides some insight into the challenges of implementing this.
  • ArrayBoundCheck 4y ago
    Implementing it without embed. With embed the author says > It feels like I wasted a lot of my life achieving something so ridiculously basic that it’s almost laughable Which makes me think I should never get involved with an ISO committee, not something I want done fast at least
    • uecker 4y ago
      The question here is why this did not already exist as an extension in some compilers. Getting something standardized that exists already in compilers and is used is far easier.
      • Gibbon1 4y ago
        Because the big circle of life. The people on the C standards committee are gold bricks that say things like we won't add anything to the standard that isn't implemented in two or more compilers. The compiler writers program in C++. And say things like if you want that feature that's a good reason to use C++ and stop using C. But if the standards committee adds it of course we will. Also embed is exactly the feature that end uses would find very useful and compiler writers would not care about at all.