alt Hacker NewsThe "stronger type system" is mostly a myth in my opinion. It was true in the past in pre-prototype C. The void pointer rules are better in C IMHO as they avoid unneeded casts (that then remove more type safety) and FAMs and variably-modified types can express things C++ simply can't do well.
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flohofwoe • today at 9:06 AM
> The void pointer rules are better in C IMHO as they avoid unneeded casts
...so much this! A void pointer is an "any-pointer" by design. It shouldn't require casting from and to specific pointer types, that defeats the whole point of having void pointers in the first place.
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I don’t understand your point at all, C++ objectively has a much stronger type system. It’s turing complete!
I’m not arguing that that’s better, or worse, but it’s definitely true and by no means a myth.