Hacker News with Generative AI: C Language

Better C – A subset of D Programming Language (dlang.org)
BetterC is a subset of D that doesn't depend on the D runtime library, only the C runtime library.
Programming Languages, D Language, C Language
4 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 1 comments
How to program a text adventure in C (helderman.github.io)
This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular. Maybe you just finished reading a tutorial somewhere, and you would like to learn some more about programming by studying other people’s source code. Or could it be that you really are genuinely interested in the ancient art of writing text adventure games from scratch?
Programming, C Language
263 points by nivethan 12 days ago | 50 comments
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 25 days ago | 72 comments
Compiling C to PowerPoint [video] (youtube.com)
Programming, C Language, PowerPoint, Video, Humor
6 points by shakna 35 days ago | 0 comments
A simple, possibly correct, LR parser for C11 (archives-ouvertes.fr)
Programming, Compilers, C Language
5 points by fanf2 40 days ago | 0 comments
Modern C (inria.fr)
Programming, C Language
124 points by ibobev 43 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_251 178 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 202 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 204 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 209 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 211 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 214 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 221 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 259 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 292 days ago | 0 comments
Misconceptions about loops in C (dl.acm.org)
Programming, C Language, Computer Science
166 points by matt_d 316 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 387 days ago | 51 comments