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I don't know anything about systems languages, but it seems that there is a lot of effort getting put into C/C++ alternatives, and many bold efforts at that. Bu

by Dewie 13y ago

I don't know anything about systems languages, but it seems that there is a lot of effort getting put into C/C++ alternatives, and many bold efforts at that. But maybe that is just a historical bias, because so few remembers the failed (popularity vice) systems languages efforts of yesteryear?

andrewflnr 13y ago
I'm only 21, but I definitely get the impression things have picked up in that area in the last few years.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Before C became mainstream, Modula-2 and many Pascal dialects like Apple and Turbo Pascal could already fulfil the same role with better type safety and Go compile times in 16 bit systems. However they lacked the bundling to a commercial OS like UNIX, hence C grew in importance, because developers tend to use the languages supported by the OS vendors.