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0 pointslelanthran4d ago0 comments

> I remember why C stayed what it is at least: elitism and gatekeeping.

If that was the goal, it failed horribly - the gatekeeping didn't work because the popularity exploded.

> You're telling me OCaml / Rust / Haskell compile to fairy pixie dust? Obviously their compilers figured it out and it works.

I said nothing of the sort.

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pdimitar4d ago· 2 in thread

You asked how sum types work in assembly. I'm telling you that at least 3 compilers figured that part out.

> You asked how sum types work in assembly.

No, I didn't - I asked how sum types were supposed to work in an era of 64KB memory systems.

They don't need extra memory in Rust for the case of nullable pointers.

The boring cases require an enum tag in C too.

By bringing up the one thing that doesn't matter, your argument becomes purely ideological.

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