From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries? Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:34:59 +0200 Message-ID: <5176FE83.3010301@gentoo.org> References: <1366683267.18069.155@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366752914 31929 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2013 21:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3171-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Apr 23 23:35:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UUkrr-0002XO-Eh for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22291 invoked by uid 550); 23 Apr 2013 21:35:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 22283 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2013 21:35:14 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <1366683267.18069.155@driftwood> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3167 Archived-At: On 04/23/2013 04:14 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > What new crop of system languages? I could point Go and Rust as two that are trying too much for my taste. There are few other that try to add just small syntactic features to C (e.g. blocks/anonymous function) to make the language a bit more expressive and yet compile to something abi/api compatible with C. > Toybox has xstrncpy(): If the string doesn't fit in the buffer, kill the > program with an error message. That's fine for a program, a horrid sin for a library. > Rob