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The Clay programming language

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2010-12-27 · latest 2025-05-29

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  1. …called clay. It had templates and ownership. It was C compatible and could be used as a substitute. https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki/Clay-for-C---programme...
    comment by CyberDildonics · 2025-05-29 · in Learning C3
  2. How is this better than Clay, other than the fact it is being maintained? http://claylabs.com/clay/ https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki/Avoiding-generic-progr...
    comment by CyberDildonics · 2018-09-20 · in Kit Programming Language
  3. …to take a look at a solid attempt at a better C, take a look at Clay. http://claylabs.com/clay https://github.com/jckarter/clay/
    comment by CyberDildonics · 2017-08-19 · in Nymph: A slightly different version of C
  4. …I'm just saying for my use case, I can't justify using it and I'll stick with Go for now. [1] https://github.com/jckarter/clay/blob/v0.1.0/doc/language-re...
  5. Here it is, by the way: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/blob/master/examples/hello.... .
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2013-07-29 · in Clay – A language designed for generic programming
  6. Couldn't find any examples on the claylabs.com page but there is some in the github repo: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/tree/master/examples
  7. The wiki is way more useful than the above link. https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki
  8. Found here: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki/Clay-for-C---programme... main() { println("Hello world!"); }
  9. I found a "Clay for C++ programmers" tutorial https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki/Clay-for-C---programme...
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    The Clay programming language
    story by fogus · 2010-12-27 · 2 comments