C is an amazing language, and I’m glad that I spent the first five years of my career writing it pretty much every day. (Some days I was writing FORTRAN, of an

C is an amazing language, and I’m glad that I spent the first five years of my career writing it pretty much every day. (Some days I was writing FORTRAN, of an era when it actually was capitalized, or working on some very bad late 90s C++. But most days, C.) The fact that it was a phenomenally well-designed language doesn’t mean we can’t try to improve upon it. My love for it doesn’t mean I don’t want to improve on it! Quite the opposite in fact.