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   Jessica Paquette (barrelshifter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:23:21 JST Jessica Paquette

   if you are a programmer working on a c project what are the biggest reasons you write c instead of c++ (or any other language)

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:23:21 JST Janneke

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     @barrelshifter (simple) C is #bootstrappable, C++ is not.

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     Marcus Müller (funkylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:42:34 JST Marcus Müller

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     • Janneke

     @janneke @barrelshifter not sure that's a fair distinction; on unhosted platforms ("bare-metal"), you still need (non-C) startup code to set up at least something like stack address(es), static storage before you can jump to a C function?

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:42:34 JST Janneke

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     • Marcus Müller

     @funkylab @barrelshifter sure, but we have things like stage0's M2-Planet that are bootstrappable and can compile my GNU Mes project written in simple C.

     C++ simply wouldn't be an option.