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by daoist_shaman 1367 days ago
It's time to retire the concept of creating new programming languages to "fix" old ones.

This is software, and it is updateable. We need to stop thinking in discrete terms and start thinking in continuous terms.

If you do not think C and C++ are good, propose solutions to their committees instead of clogging up the digital space with flamebait.
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mamcx 1367 days ago
> It's time to retire the concept of creating new programming languages to "fix" old ones.

Is LITERALLY the ONLY way to fix a language. No amount of lipstick can fix C/C++, precisely because is an established language (that amounts for any lang in the moment is settled AND widespread).

But C/C++ is unique in a particular way: Their users are the MOST stubborns of all!

And Rust is the first time the arguments for start new things on C/C++ because reasons are not very very small...

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hardware2win 1367 days ago
>If you do not think C and C++ are good, propose solutions to their committees

Sorry, I cannot do that due to backwards compatibility, closing request.

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