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Why not clean up all of these corner cases so that the answer is obvious from reading it, and release it as some fork of C?
by pmarreck 5y ago
Why not clean up all of these corner cases so that the answer is obvious from reading it, and release it as some fork of C?
- MauranKilom 5y agoThere have been many related efforts over the years. But inertia of large C codebases means that the industry at large keeps using C, limiting the popularity of such "forks". Why did C++ make it so big then? There's a good talk about this from Herb Sutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHfaH9Kffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHfaH9Kffs (Also check out minute ~20 for discussion of your exact question!)