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by loeg 2339 days ago
This gets reposted every couple years and it's still bad for all of the same reasons.

It's not higher level than C in the sense that you get any additional safety guarantees or real beneficial abstractions. If you are fine without the safety but want abstractions, use C++. If you want safety and abstractions, use Rust or Go or Zig. If you really want a transpile-to-C language, you've got Nim.

Finally, it's not good at being C; everything it does is poor practice and should be quickly recognized as such by experienced C developers, IMO. It's got no developer community and no real-world production consumers.