> Edit-and-continue worked 20 years ago and most programmers still don't use it. If you are super awesome, you might use a reversible debugger. That's still fri

> Edit-and-continue worked 20 years ago and most programmers still don't use it. If you are super awesome, you might use a reversible debugger. That's still fringe science these days. Or use a debugger at all. Or write their code in a way that's easy to debug. > "grep and loose, flat ASCII files were good enough for my grandpappy. I can't accept anything different" Just try sneaking an unicode character in a non-trivial project somewhere. > So, so many languages try to look like C and are mostly flavors of the same procedural-OO-bit-of-functional paradigm C did something right. It's still readable and simple enough it doesn't take too long to learn (memory management is the hardest thing about it).