The “less harmful alternatives” are simpler only in a surface-level way. Go is “simpler” than Python in that the language has less features, but that leads to m

The “less harmful alternatives” are simpler only in a surface-level way. Go is “simpler” than Python in that the language has less features, but that leads to more complex code since there is less possibility to abstract things away. It is also a very hard language to write reliable code in, and reliability seems to be the stated goal of this whole thing. Python is hard to write reliable code in too, but Go is not a good alternative in this aspect. Also, many of these alternatives make no compromise for practicality. GCC sucks, we can all agree, but without it our code would be slow and buggy (TCC doesn’t support ASan or other such debugging tools AFAIK).