c3lang/c3c on Hacker News

…is a C/C++ alternative for general purpose programming. Some links: https://c3-lang.org - main site https://github.com/c3lang/c3c - github repo https://learn-c3.org - tutorial https://c3-lang.org/standard-library/docs.html - standard…

comment by lerno · 2026-09-24 · in Show HN: C3 Playground – a C3 compiler with graphics and sound in the browser

…in or don't want to see anything about other young or newer languages in the category. [1]: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c [2]: https://github.com/odin-lang/odin [3]: https://freedium-mirror.cfd/https://levelup.gitconnected.com... (The V…

comment by baranul · 2026-07-02 · in Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

…[3]: https://ossinsight.io/collections/programming-language/trend... [4]: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c [5]: https://github.com/zenc-lang/zenc

comment by baranul · 2026-04-25 · in GitHub's fake star economy

…languages[1][2]. Zen C appears to be moving up very quickly, and even has autofree. [1]: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c (C3) [2]: https://github.com/zenc-lang/zenc (Zen C)

comment by baranul · 2026-04-15 · in Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes

c3 does this automatically, I implemented the same thing :) https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/pull/2854

comment by ManuLinares · 2026-02-15 · in I fixed Windows native development

…is 0.7.8 (December 6th) in 2025 (last month). [1] https://github.com/vlang/v/releases/tag/0.5 [2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/releases/tag/v0.7.8

comment by baranul · 2026-01-06 · in Zig programming language 0.6.0 release notes

There is https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/829

comment by lerno · 2026-01-05 · in The C3 Programming Language

Still looking for a good design: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/829

comment by lerno · 2026-01-03 · in The C3 Programming Language

The GitHub project has more details: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Some ways C3 differs from C: - No mandatory header files - New semantic macro system - Module-based namespacing - Slices - Operator overloading - Compile-time reflection -…

comment by throwfaraway135 · 2026-01-03 · in The C3 Programming Language

…similar thing in the code. Does anyone know if this is just an oversight / temporary omission? [1] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/master/test/test_suite/co... [2] https://c3-lang.org/language-fundamentals/functions/

comment by cb321 · 2026-01-03 · in The C3 Programming Language

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C3 Programming Language 0.7.4 Release

story by Retro_Dev · 2025-08-02 · 0 comments

You can actually see the whole implementation of `@pool` inside the standard library (link: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/f082cac762939d9b43f7f7301... ) if you're interested. You'll have to follow a few function calls, but the whole…

comment by Windeycastle · 2025-07-14 · in C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes

I hope you do know there's a C3 language for a number of years already https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/

comment by stefanos82 · 2025-07-06 · in Show HN: The C³ Programming Language version 2

…so rarely (I think two uses in the entire stdlib), so it hasn't come up. I opened an issue for it: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/2130 This is a good example of the sharp edges I hope to smoothen out in 0.7-0.9.

comment by lerno · 2025-05-13 · in Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour

Well, you're free to revive this issue: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/1451 . I'd need a more solid proposal.

comment by lerno · 2025-04-06 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

…it in C. There is not much of a guide I'm afraid. I translated some of the raylib examples to C3: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/tree/master/resources/examples... But those are straight up conversions of the original C code. I think any C…

comment by lerno · 2025-04-06 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

No, there is an incomplete proposal for it here though: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/1451 What would you like to use it for?

comment by lerno · 2025-04-05 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

For grabbing the CPU features, there is some rudimentary implementation for x86 here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/master/lib/std/core/priva... but not properly tested (which is to say, I would not count on it to work properly). The…

comment by lerno · 2025-04-04 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

…do you think? Would this work from C3? [1] https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/cpudetect/tree/cpudetect.h [2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/master/lib/std/encoding/b... --- I checked base32.c3. I am comparing it to Odin's, which can be found at…

comment by johnisgood · 2025-04-04 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

…more, because pushed on HN and other social media. [1] https://github.com/c2lang/c2compiler [2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

comment by baranul · 2025-04-04 · in Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

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story by lerno · 2025-04-03 · 185 comments

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C3 (a C-like programming language) hits 0.6.6

story by lerno · 2025-01-16 · 6 comments

…[1] of C are still spawning and gaining traction, because C++ is perceived as overkill. [1]: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

comment by seanw444 · 2024-10-10 · in Proposal: JavaScript Structs

The links from the video's description: https://c3-lang.org/ https://github.com/c3lang/c3c https://github.com/c3lang/editor-plugins Code: https://github.com/tsoding/c3-demo

comment by ReleaseCandidat · 2024-07-29 · in Tsoding livestreams trying out C3 (programming language) [video]

…Vala (compiles to C, some GTK apps are written in this) - https://vala.dev/ C3 - https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Rune (last commit 7 months ago) - https://github.com/google/rune Kit (dead, last commit 5 years ago) - https://github.com/kitlan

comment by frfl · 2024-01-02 · in Odin Programming Language

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Show HN: The C3 programming language reaches feature-stabiliy

story by lerno · 2023-11-21 · 7 comments

…“ is a C-like language striving to be an evolution of C, rather than a completely new language ”: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c If you have the time, I’d like to hear which things you miss in C. There might be something I did not imagine…

comment by AlbertoGP · 2022-10-17 · in Learn enough C to survive

C3: Currently being looked into https://github.com/c3lang/c3c#current-status Zig: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Assembly Odin: Looks like it's a dead language, but it was on the docket. https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/blob/mas…

comment by cogman10 · 2022-08-09 · in The case against a C alternative

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Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

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Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

story by lerno · 2021-07-18 · 87 comments

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Ask HN: Help me improve my C-like language, C3

story by Nuoji · 2020-08-10 · 7 comments