Hacker News with Generative AI: C Language

Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025? (ycombinator.com)
I know this has been lately decaying.. most referenced are very old, such as this one: https://github.com/richardjrossiii/CBasediOSApp<p>Hence my question: Is it possible?
iOS Development, Programming Languages, C Language
160 points by iMario 12 days ago | 72 comments
Compiling C to PowerPoint [video] (youtube.com)
Programming, C Language, PowerPoint, Video, Humor
6 points by shakna 22 days ago | 0 comments
A simple, possibly correct, LR parser for C11 (archives-ouvertes.fr)
Programming, Compilers, C Language
5 points by fanf2 27 days ago | 0 comments
Modern C (inria.fr)
Programming, C Language
124 points by ibobev 30 days ago | 22 comments
TinyCC Memory and Bounds Checks (bellard.org)
TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyper fast C compiler.
Programming, C Language, Compilers, Optimization
8 points by sigsev_251 165 days ago | 1 comments
reftrack-plugin – plugin for GCC that tracks references to allocated objects (github.com/acbits)
reftrack is a GCC plugin for C language that tracks references to allocated objects though it could be used for other purposes by writing custom functions.
Software, Programming Languages, C Language, GCC, Debugging
18 points by pabs3 190 days ago | 2 comments
GCC Preparing to Set C23 "GNU23" as Default C Language Version (phoronix.com)
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified.
Programming Languages, GCC, C Language
5 points by thunderbong 192 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: C Language Successors (ycombinator.com)
For those of you who have experimented with potential C language successors, what are pros and cons and your experiences with them? I am talking about languages like Zig, Odin, C3, Hare, V and possibly Nim and Crystal, assuming that they are considered systems programming languages.
Programming Languages, C Language, Systems Programming
6 points by blueredmodern 196 days ago | 10 comments
Coding without braces: An alternate C Syntax (deusinmachina.net)
I recently stumbled upon an interesting piece of C language trivia that underscores how different computers were when C was first created. Specifically, C allows the use of digraphs (two letter combinations that represent a single letter) like <% and %> as alternatives of { and } and <: and :> as substitutes for [ and ]. The purpose of this was to provide an alternate syntax to support keyboards and character sets where braces and brackets were not available.
Programming Languages, C Language, History, Syntax, Trivia
6 points by todsacerdoti 198 days ago | 2 comments
The SQLite Amalgamation (sqlite.org)
Over 100 separate source files are concatenated into a single large file of C-code named "sqlite3.c" and referred to as "the amalgamation". The amalgamation contains everything an application needs to embed SQLite.
Databases, Software, Programming, C Language
76 points by burglins 202 days ago | 12 comments
C Until It Is No Longer C (aartaka.me)
We have to admit that C is inherently/potentially ugly.
Programming Languages, C Language, Software Development
13 points by synergy20 208 days ago | 0 comments
It's time to return to the roots, to the C programming language (ycombinator.com)
Programming Languages, C Language
12 points by modevs 246 days ago | 13 comments
Operator_precedence_parsing: C89 expressions parsed with the shunting yard algo (github.com/bourguet)
Programming, Computer Science, Algorithms, C Language
10 points by todsacerdoti 279 days ago | 0 comments
Misconceptions about loops in C (dl.acm.org)
Programming, C Language, Computer Science
166 points by matt_d 303 days ago | 182 comments
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language (fosscomics.com)
History, Programming, Open Source, Unix, C Language
141 points by cubix4u 374 days ago | 51 comments