• addie@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, compiling C code with a C++ compiler gets you all the warnings from C++'s strong-typing rules. That’s a big bonus for me, even if it only highlights the areas of your C that are likely to become a maintenance hazard - all those void* casts want some documentation about what assumptions make them safe. Clang will compile variable-length arrays in C++, so you might want to switch off that warning since you’ve probably intended it. Just means that you can’t use designated initialisers, since C++ uses constructors for that and there’s no C equivalent. I’d be happy describing code that compiles in either situation as “C+”.

    Also stops anyone using auto, constexpr or nullptr as variable names, which will help if you want to copy-paste some well-tested code into a different project later.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      To be honest I’m still confused by a lot of these microcontroller languages (PlatformIO/Arduino/ESPHome)…

      Are they just drag and drop feature blocks that are essentially C macros, but you never get to see the code and its all abstracted with flow diagrams?

      • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know about the others, but Arduino is literally just C++ with some macros/library functions.

      • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        The standard Arduino platform is essentially C, just with some standard hardware-near procedures hidden away as far as I know. You can just write standard C code in two blocks: init and loop. Then the loop block will be repeated for ever. For controlling voltage pins you have easy commands similatlr to like pinState(PinNumber, on/off). I do not know about the others you mentioned, but there definetely is also some implementations for Raspberry Pi control by drag&drop. There is no need to limit yourself with those though.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

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  • pelya@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s just C++ without templates. So whatever element you want to put into std::list, it must virtually inherit std::list::value_type. And of course there will be a macro-based list monstrosity inside Boost.