Less than a decade after the article was written, I'm pleased to see that Rust fulfills at least 15 items out of his 19-point wish list. And the unfulfilled it

Less than a decade after the article was written, I'm pleased to see that Rust fulfills at least 15 items out of his 19-point wish list. And the unfulfilled items are questionable anyway, like "do not remove the cpp preprocessor", "implicit pass-by-reference", and "typesafe varargs".