"Behold, the epic quest for 'Dependable C' - because nothing screams #reliability like undefined behavior and broken VLAs 🤦‍♂️! In a dazzling display of verbosity, they ironically try to fix C with more convoluted #C23 and mythical #C2Y, because adding chaos is the path to safety, right? 🤔🔧"
https://dependablec.org/ #DependableC #UndefinedBehavior #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

@fanf IMO one of the most interesting papers for #c2y . Releasing a new standard with 'optional' along 'defer' by @thephd would give a total breeze of fresh air to C development.

Couldn't agree more with this paragraph from a #C standard proposal written by Chris Bazley for #c2y. I think this issue should be taken seriously by the #wg14 comitee.

Continuing on my thoughts about the #C language; It is widely known that the "pragma once" directive is supported by most of the compilers in the industry. Why not standardize it for #c2y ?

#Cprogramming #C2y The paper of Javier Múgica (with a little bit of co-authorship by myself) about array subscripting has now been accepted into C2y. It has only marginal direct consequences for your everyday code (except perhaps if you use `register` or `constexpr`), but it helps to make arrays in C a little bit less weird.

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3517.htm

🌘 C 字串常數是否應設為 const？
➤ 評估 C2y 標準中字串常數 const 限制的影響
✤ https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/make-c-string-literals-const/
Jens Gustedt 的部落格文章探討了在 C2y 標準中，是否應將字串常數的類型改為 const-qualified 的基本類型，如同 C++ 所做的一樣。雖然編譯器早已支援此功能，甚至有些預設啟用，但這仍屬於標準規範的變更，可能對現有程式碼造成影響。作者呼籲社羣提供回饋，特別是那些已經使用相關選項（如 gcc 的 -Wwrite-strings）或測試過此變更影響的專案，以便評估此變更的影響程度。作者強調需要的是實際數據而非主觀意見，並要求提供專案的相關資訊。
+ 「這個改變聽起來很有道理，能更早發現潛在的錯誤，但不知道會不會影響到一些舊的程式碼。」
+ 「我很好奇有多少專案實際上會受到影響，而且需要花費多少精力來適應這個變更。」
#C 程式語言 #C2y #const 限制

Meeting 71 of WG14 (the ISO C committee) is now complete, and I've written a blogpost with an overview of the proposals that were highlights for me: https://www.ethernull.org/blog_posts/2024_10.1_wg14.html

With thanks to @AaronBallman @erisceleste @thephd for writing the proposals I wrote about!

Obviously there were plenty of great papers, these were just a few I particularly liked. C23 is really nice, and I think C2y is already shaping up to be something quite special. :)

#WG14
#C2y
#C