Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:34:54 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

 
It's strange: in one part of the computing world, the speed of
building software is a very big deal. All sorts of efforts are going
on to deal with it. Compilation speed for developers is always an
issue. There is a general movement away from LLVM-based backends
/because/ it is so slow.
 

What "general movement" are you talking about?
I can't recollect any new* language for general-purpose computers that
is used by more than dozen* persons which is not based on LLVM back end.
Despite its undeniable slowness.
Of course, apart from those that are based on one of 3 other major
infrastructures - ART, .Net and JVM.

new = 15 years or less

dozen - figurative.
For example, 9-10 years ago I defined interface definition language
with accompanying tools that since then was used by ~20-25 people. It
still counts as less than "figurative dozen", because all users were /
are employees of the same company.