Re: candidate of add. language in src (not rust)

Bakul Shah wrote in
 <92AA5267-EB11-4514-BB79-6B64FC2CC309@iitbombay.org>:
 |On Sep 20, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com> \
 |wrote:
 |> On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:37:44 -0700
 |> Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
 |>> On Sep 20, 2025, at 9:00 AM, Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com> \
 |>> wrote:

 |>>> it has e.g. immutable strings so it is not very free from boilerplates.\
 ...
 |> Consider not even Shell, but e.g. sed, awk or Perl. It's very easy \
 |> in them to
 |> write replacing a part of string, like s/foo/bar/ or appending/prepending
 |> something to string. It's very common is scripts (and Makefiles, \
 |> which also
 |> could be considered high-level scripting language) to write such, \
 |> but tedious
 |
 |Immutable strings simply means you can't index and replace a char
 |but you can use regex or append/prepend and assign to the same var.
 |For ex, x = "pre-"+x+"-post". Its string library is similar to Go's.
 |Much less error prone or fiddly than C's.

You *can* create a string object in C, with a nice and beautiful
interface to do stuff.

Of course it sucks to compare

  while(_tr.readLine(*&_line) >= 0){
    ln = _line.trim().squeeze().data();

with any thinkable C myprefix_mystring_myfun(mystrobj,) cascade.

However, having seen some V lang intro page today, i would then
"using namespace XY;" and original things suddenly look much nicer.
(Having said that, at times i do not even understand modern C++.
To me "auto" means "i want that to live on the stack", etc etc.
That stupid i am.  'Nuff said.  (I long for C+.))

  ...

--steffen
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