awson

Is the author even aware of C tooling?

C++ killed off some of C's killer low-level features like type-punning via unions

Yet all major C++ compilers support it.

I just glanced at it, but in "Rust supports cross-language link-time optimization between C/C++ and Rust" it's not Rust but LLVM.

Any languages with LLVM backends get cross-language LTO for free.

Have they ever tried Zig Bun with LTO?

NTFS is case sensitive.

If on WSL2, they need

[interop]

appendWindowsPath=false

section in /etc/wsl.conf.

Then everything will go flawlessly.

Absolutely.

Quite a long time ago I was working on a some business application's reporting facility.

It used to take about an hour, and my development reduced this time to a 1 or 2 seconds ballpark.

This was HUGE. And changed the way users create these reports forever.

AFAUI, this extension uses proprietary C++ front-end commercially licensed from EDG.

The same front-end powers their Visual Studio IDE (not Code).

Also, AFAIK, there exist an alternative `clangd`-based C++ extension, which is fully open-source (but I could be wrong).

And using `libgit2`, written in C, for heavy-lifting.

The very existence of Far Manager makes me stay on Windows.

"wouldn't necessarily be able"

It goes completely against the most (perhaps) fundamental part of C++ philosophy of overloading functions on argument types.

This.