C38 (so when the world ends): - arrays with slices (that could also be used for strings) and Cilk Plus array notation [1] - maybe actual string type with sepa

C38 (so when the world ends): - arrays with slices (that could also be used for strings) and Cilk Plus array notation [1] - maybe actual string type with separate concatenation operator (possibly space as awk uses and C for literal strings) it could probably be folded to improved arrays - standard SIMD vector types so that most use for operator overload disappears - cleaned up standard library - actual macros so the remaining use for operator overload disappears - module system (so you would generally not need make and could easily compile to static binary) - already you can build with static musl libc [2] - something like libdill [3] or libmill [4] in stdlib - there are multiple good IDEs, debuggers, analyzers - one of biggest ecosystems and communities - historical baggage mostly cleaned up [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk#Array_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk#Array_notation [2] https://www.musl-libc.org https://www.musl-libc.org [3] http://libdill.org/ http://libdill.org/ [4] http://libmill.org/ http://libmill.org/