Better branding of -betterC

bachmeier no at spam.net
Thu Oct 29 18:21:38 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 18:20:56 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 16:15:28 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 14:43:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 02:28:58PM +0000, Mike Parker via 
>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> Maybe my point is being missed. There is a market for 
>> languages that do what D does but where GC is not an option. 
>> D's better C version is essentially what they need, so if you 
>> are happy to cede that market to Jai/Zig and similar then fine.
>
> I can't think of a better name than betterC if your goal is to 
> do the same things as with C, only with some added features. 
> The important thing to me is to emphasize that it's a subset of 
> C but has many limitations. I'm in strong agreement with Mike 
> on this one.
>
> More generally, if you want to promote it effectively, write a 
> big project using betterC and promote your project instead.

subset of C -> superset of C


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