[dev] [st][bug] Font fallback fails on some systems

2024-06-22 Thread Sergei Grechanik
I've recently upgraded my system and noticed that many Unicode characters are no longer displayed in st, although other applications were unaffected. After some investigation, I found that it's a font fallback failure: the font returned by FcFontSetMatch lacked the character requested via the

Re: [dev] alternatives to C: Ada, Rust, Pascal

2024-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-22 03:58:46 +, NRK wrote: > Sized strings > - > > typedef struct { > uint8_t *s; // or you can use `(unsigned) char *` > ptrdiff_t len; // or you can use `size_t`, see explanation > below > } Str; > > * Cheap access to the

Re: [dev] alternatives to C: Ada, Rust, Pascal

2024-06-22 Thread Jeremy
Hello Friend, On 06/21/24 10:45AM, Greg Reagle wrote: > I am not a fan of C because of problems like buffer overflows; weakly typed > arrays; lack of (built-in) range checking for enumerations, numeric types, > arrays; lack of overflow checking; string handling being too complex. > Basically