On: Giving up on Julia (2016)

[soup10]

C really is a great language, its kinda funny how all the attempts to improve on it end up causing just as many pain points as they solve.

[yvdriess → soup10]

C is chosen because how little language there is. Attempts to improve it end up adding to it, kind of defeating why it is useful in the first place.

I find D's better-C dialect to be a definite improvement across the board, but there is a lot of institutional inertia behind C.