What are the advantages of using betterC?

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 19 17:58:49 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 17:44:03 UTC, Rempas wrote:
> 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?

Not really


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