Interesting. Perhaps the writer might find Vlang (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/, https://github.com/vlang/v https://github.com/vlang/v) to his liking. B

Interesting. Perhaps the writer might find Vlang (https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/, https://github.com/vlang/v https://github.com/vlang/v) to his liking. But many of these newer languages haven't hit 1.0 yet, so are in alpha and beta stages, so it's hard to say how the finished product will be embraced or how popular they might end up becoming. In many cases, these languages are alternatives to C++ (because of how messy it has become) and are positioned as a kind of "next step evolution" of C that also makes interop with it easier. Though much older, we could put D in that category as well. I don't think the audience of the newer languages is so much for hardcore C or C++ programmers. The newer languages would be more attractive to newer programmers, those coming from scripting languages that want to learn a compiled language, or older casual programmers actively looking for something different that still has C-like syntax. Otherwise, much older (and battle tested) Delphi/Object Pascal (which is about as powerful and as fast as C++) would be on more radars for switch-over, if not for the excessive C-like syntax bias.