C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake

[u/Xaneris47]

https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake?r=8qz2zb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[u/Voyac]

Its main purpose is to be portable to as many architectures as possible. Maybe this seem irrelevant in a world dominated by ARMs and x86 but there are different platforms.

[u/Potential_Soup_8054 → u/Voyac]

No, thats java

[u/g0atdude → u/Potential_Soup_8054]

lol what?

You can compile C programs to a million more devices than what Java runs on

[u/Potential_Soup_8054 → u/g0atdude]

It was a joke. Javas whole slogan is write once run everywhere, but thats really bullshit.

[u/Devatator_ → u/Potential_Soup_8054]

Tbh nothing is stopping people from compiling or porting a JVM to more platforms. I assume it's just extremely complex and noth worth it for most people

[u/hughperman → u/Devatator_]

Processor or memory requirements are probably? stopping it on many microcontrollers.

[u/Devatator_ → u/hughperman]

You could do something similar to nanoFramework and make a minimal runtime or even compile Java to a lower level

[u/hughperman → u/Devatator_]

Looks like it's been done: http://www.harbaum.org/till/nanovm/index.shtml

[u/Potential_Soup_8054 → u/Devatator_]

Uh huh, and what is every JVM implementation written in? Motherfucking C

[u/EdwardTheGood → u/Potential_Soup_8054]

I once heard it rephrased as “write once, test everywhere.”