What are the advantages of using betterC?

Rempas rempas at tutanota.com
Tue Jan 19 17:44:03 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 17:40:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> betterC is a niche restricted feature set. If you don't already 
> have a use case in mind, I'd recommend avoiding it.
>
> It is for cases where you're stuck with certain limitations to 
> integrate with the outside world. Like running on peculiar 
> hardware or interoperating with certain outside programs where 
> you can't initialize the runtime properly (and even then, you 
> might be better off going with a custom minimal runtime over 
> the betterC prepackaged restrictions).
>
> Some libraries try to be compatible with it so they can be used 
> in those special cases too, but you probably don't need it.

Oh ok! So there is not advantage from using it like faster 
compile time, better performance etc. right?


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