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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by sytelus on Saturday December 03, 2016 @03:14AM (#13094927)
Problem is that we haven't been able to come up with a good alternative. Go is limited by its curse of minimalism [1] while Rust is verbose and rigid [2]. One of the reasons C became popular was that it was designed to solve real problems, not an exercise in minimalism or academic beauty. Its authors frequently sacrificed beauty and minimalism if it made sense and real world use demanded it. Unlike Rust or Go or NimRod, C is not just strongly opinionated statements on language design. One of the side effect is also that new languages often come with sub-par libraries and language designers expect others/community to figure everything else out.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-reasons-are-there-to-not-use-Go-p...

[2] https://plus.google.com/+nialldouglas/posts/AXFJRSM8u2t

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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by nickpsecurity on Saturday December 03, 2016 @06:31PM (#13098013)
Free Pascal, Component Pascal, and esp Modula-3. Id get rid of capital identifiers. Make syntax more C-like. Modula-3 esp was nearly ideal set of tradeoffs for a safer alternative between C and C++ that also compiles fast like Go on weak hardware.

We've had plenty of replacements waiting. C developers are just hyper committed to that language. Even though its inventors moved onto a Wirth-like language.

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