awson

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by awson 2mo ago
Is the author even aware of C tooling?
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by awson 2mo ago
> C++ killed off some of C's killer low-level features like type-punning via unions Yet all major C++ compilers support it.
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by awson 2mo ago
I just glanced at it, but in "Rust supports cross-language link-time optimization between C/C++ and Rust" it's not Rust but LLVM. Any languages with LLVM backends get cross-language LTO for free. Have they ever tried Zig
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by awson 3mo ago
NTFS is case sensitive.
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by awson 1y ago
If on WSL2, they need [interop] appendWindowsPath=false section in /etc/wsl.conf. Then everything will go flawlessly.
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by awson 1y ago
Absolutely. Quite a long time ago I was working on a some business application's reporting facility. It used to take about an hour, and my development reduced this time to a 1 or 2 seconds ballpark. This was HUGE. And changed the way u
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by awson 2y ago
AFAUI, this extension uses proprietary C++ front-end commercially licensed from EDG. The same front-end powers their Visual Studio IDE (not Code). Also, AFAIK, there exist an alternative `clangd`-based C++ extension, which is fully open-sou
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by awson 3y ago
And using `libgit2`, written in C, for heavy-lifting.
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by awson 3y ago
The very existence of Far Manager makes me stay on Windows.
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by awson 7y ago
"wouldn't necessarily be able" It goes completely against the most (perhaps) fundamental part of C++ philosophy of overloading functions on argument types.
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Russia blocks llvm.org
2 points by awson 8y ago|0 comments
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by awson 12y ago
This.