In certain ways, C++ is better than C. It has desirable features that C lacks. However, in certain ways C++ is worse than C, because the interplay of its many f

In certain ways, C++ is better than C. It has desirable features that C lacks. However, in certain ways C++ is worse than C, because the interplay of its many features creates much incidental complexity. For example, it was not feasible to write exception-safe code before smart pointers became ubiquitous. In addition, almost all the safety features of C++ are opt-in, when they ought to be opt-out. I want a language like C, one that interfaces well with C, but with memory safety, static polymorphism, real vector types (to avoid the aliasing problem), and real higher-order functions, all with minimal runtime overhead. So I’m building one (Kitten). Mozilla (Rust) and several others (Nimrod) have similar ideas.