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interface99

Full-featured interfaces for C99

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Full-featured interfaces for C99

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-06-23 20:09:05 UTC to 2022-09-13 13:37:32 UTC.

012021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 2022

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Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Hirrolot·Jul 22, 2021
> The c preprocessor replaces something by something else and the process is completely opaque. If you have multiple layers of macros, codes becomes impossible to follow, isolate and understand with a debugger or a profiler. It's not true for Datatype99 & Interface99. Their code generation semantics are completely transparent to a user of these macros [1] [2]. > That has made our codebase extremely robust. We use real metaprogramming with our own tools, not hacks, and that gives us a tremendous competitive advantage because problems takes 1/10th or 1/100th the time for being solved. If you use third-party tools and you're okay with that, I'm not saying you should stop using them, I'm saying that there is another solution with advantages over third-party tools [3]. If native macros haven't worked for your codebase, it doesn't mean they don
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't work for others. I would not say that the preprocessor is a thing to always avoid -- there are many examples why it is helpful, and even more helpful than any kind of third-party tools you can come up with. > Usually the way things work someone creates a easy C macro to automate some small thing, then a month later someone else creates another macro that uses the macro in a two layer system, then someone else creates another macro over the macros and leaves the old macros there. How third-party tools are different from native macros in this case? [1]: https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99#semantics [2]: https://github.com/Hirrolot/interface99#semantics [3]: https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99#q-why-not-third-party...
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