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This is true. With all the new and fancy languages around, it's strange that there are so few attempts at making a better C.
I would say that the characteristics of C is: dead simple, manual memory management, "fancy assembly".
Rust is close, but fails on being dead simple.
The best attempt I know of, is Zig: http://ziglang.org/
But it's still very early in development. I am using it for microcontroller code right now though, and it's much nicer than C already, despite having to deal with bugs.
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This is true. With all the new and fancy languages around, it's strange that there are so few attempts at making a better C.
I would say that the characteristics of C is: dead simple, manual memory management, "fancy assembly".
Rust is close, but fails on being dead simple.
The best attempt I know of, is Zig: http://ziglang.org/
But it's still very early in development. I am using it for microcontroller code right now though, and it's much nicer than C already, despite having to deal with bugs.