On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 00:50:35 UTC, Israel wrote:
Believe it or not, many of us are here because of that very
reason, we want something that is just or nearly as good as
C/C++
but without the mess. Even if its still using the C/C++ training
wheels.
Of course, but that inevitably leads to a language with new,
fancy features rather than something that's essentially just a
cleaned up C. D cleans up lots of stuff from C++, but it added
tons of stuff of its own. And even a simple language like Go
added new stuff (though it also took away features from C). I'd
be surprised to see a language take off that was anything close
to just a cleaned up C, much as such a language would
theoretically be nice to have in a variety of contexts.
- Jonathan M Davis
