This is interesting. Recently, I've been doing more c programming again, and everytime I do I find myself thinking about building a language that is essentially

This is interesting. Recently, I've been doing more c programming again, and everytime I do I find myself thinking about building a language that is essentially c with just a very few pain points removed. #1 is a build/module/package system for making it easier to build modular code without copy/paste that is the defacto c-standard. #2 would be removing the pain points of utf8/unicode support (go seems to get this pretty close to right). And that's really it. (you could throw in an easy way to do closures and all values immutable by default and I wouldn't mind either). Otherwise, I'm usually completely happy using C. I've tried Rust and Go and they have their use cases, but for most low-level things I do, I don't care that much about everything being perfectly safe (i.e. rust), and I don't want gc, and the high level stuff that Go brings. Really, just give me C with a good module system and I'd be perfectly happy. Maybe I'm alone here though...