Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language?

Re:Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language? by jokoon on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:41AM (#32821612)

C++ without the old bad things it carries for the sake of backwards compatibility.

Maybe a simpler subset of the language with it's most common usage, like STL containers, string, etc.

And a similar syntax, I don't want want exotic things like in rust.

By the way I wonder why it's not possible to deprecate things in C++, and compile different part of a code base with either an old or a new part of the language. C++ really needs to break off backward compatibility.

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Re:Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language? by hyperswine on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:40AM (#32821936)

What kinds of exotic syntax, Lifetime annotations and parameterising impl Trait like in returns? Also thoughts on carbon?

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