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Hi everyone, Jerome here who designed eC 20 years ago. Happy to see this momentary spike of interest in eC :) eC is still very much alive, but it never gained

Hi everyone, Jerome here who designed eC 20 years ago. Happy to see this momentary spike of interest in eC :) eC is still very much alive, but it never gained much traction, as few languages without a major backer do. Our latest efforts over the last decade have been more about using eC rather than trying to make it gain popularity, as well as working on geospatial Open Standards. Just wanted to point out that the project and language (and the related FOSS Cross-Platform Ecere SDK) are alive and well, and I do hope to find time or resources to address some of the issues pointed out in this thread. Cheers!

bxparks 3y ago
I looked a bit deeper into your website and I am impressed with the amount of work that has gone into this language and its tools. I agree with the other commenters that eC seems like a pragmatic and ergonomic extension to the C language. It solves many of the problems that I find annoying about C: removing header files, adding access control through modules, a reasonable object system. I'd been looking for a language like this for maybe 10-15 years, but I had never heard of eC until now. I know about Zig, D, Nim, Odin, C2, C3, and a bunch of other obscure languages aimed at C-like use cases, but not eC. I'm not sure how it can get more traction.