[Gibbon1]

I think zig just blew a big gaping hole in the argument that the language needs to be tied to legacy code.

Because zig can compile old C code and Zig into the same binary. Which means there is no reason you couldn't compile old legacy C code and new better C code into the same binary as well.

The C standards committee need to be fired and replaced with people who aren't willfully holding the language back.

[klodolph]

Hm, I can understand where you’re coming from but I think you’re asking for something which provides negligible value and would require a significant amount of engineering effort. Additionally, the way in which you’re expressing your opinions about the C language is needlessly inflammatory. What’s most unreasonable about your comment is the way it attacks people.

It seems like your issue here is really nothing more than the names of languages—your position is that there should be a language with clean semantics, interoperability with C, etc. and this language should furthermore be called “C”. A language exists—Zig—which seems to meet all your requirements except one. The only missing requirement, as far as I can tell, is that it is not called “C”. Let me know if there is something I misunderstand about your position, because I can’t think of a different way to interpret it.

I can see where you’re coming from—but to be honest, unless I am misunderstanding your position, your position seems completely unreasonable, and again, the personal attacks are pointlessly inflammatory.