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by InclinedPlane 6024 days ago
People are trying to create a language that fits the niche that C is supposed to fill in today's world but just barely misses the mark (fast, low-level, but still sane and more or less modern). To a lot of people it looks like the easiest way to create a language that fills that niche is to fix the bugs in C rather than create something new from scratch.