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by thechao 2390 days ago
Right? I keep thinking that the first place to start on a better C is to ask what needs be removed — not added. Once the “bad parts” are removed, what ergonomic features need be added back in?

For starters: implicit coercion is out; weak type aliasing is out; automatic binary serialization of aggregate types is out; etc.