gibsjose

Hey Peter, thanks for this.

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Great idea! What about allowing us to login with our existing HN accounts or perhaps Google accounts, etc. in addition to creating a new account?

I know the article is referring to "most commonly used" in a different way here (developers choosing it versus end users interacting with software written in it), but I would think that C is still the most commonly used language when you take the latter definition.

Think of all the machines running OS X and Linux (not sure about Windows), the system calls and drivers on most phones, the microcontrollers in your car, your toaster, your TV, etc.

I'd have to imagine C being the most "used" language, given that almost everything we interact with all day long, regardless of whether we are connected to the web, likely has something written in C on it.

Is there a ranking/estimate of this sort of "use"?

I converted this to a (hopefully) more readable Markdown version a while back: https://github.com/gibsjose/BitHacks

Yeah, that's true.

I'm not sure what aspect of asking about the level of testing performed on an open source library gives you that idea, but sure: no offense taken.

Vector and possibly string have that. The vast majority of STL structures do not.

If you are using an RTOS (which many timing-critical applications run on), you should be worried about memory allocations happening under the hood.

If you don't have full control over when memory is being allocated/reallocated, your system is now non-deterministic.

With pure C, you can know exactly when those few extra instructions for resizing your dynamic array are going to happen.

That depends on when a failure were to occur. If we have a failure while the spacecraft is en route to its destination, perhaps we can recover because we may have enough time.

If we have a failure during rendezvous with our target, it could be a very bad day.

[Un]fortunately, we are tied to C/C++ due to mission requirements and our hardware platform.

Ouch. I'll keep looking then.

Any recommendations for reliable C data structures?

Has this library been stress tested? I am interested in using this library for a spaceflight application, but reliability is paramount in our situation.

Thank God.