It's surprising to me that a language hasn't emerged which is more purely a modernization of C. It seems like you could go a long way just keeping C's basic ab

It's surprising to me that a language hasn't emerged which is more purely a modernization of C. It seems like you could go a long way just keeping C's basic abstraction in place, reworking some of the clunky bits and adding some basic quality-of-life improvements from the past 30 years of language design.