[binary132]

“Whatever you would use C for but better” roughly

I’m not really convinced because in Andrew’s livestreams he’s actively uncovered significant stdlib bugs that he is aware of and tables for later.

Hopefully those will all be gone by 1.0, but I doubt it. For now, I cannot consider it a viable alternative to anything for production software. I do hope it will be some day, because it’s a nice language, even if it has a few syntactic warts :)

that said... I feel safer choosing C89 or C99 for certain things due to its extremely wide availability and longevity.

It’s great for it to have competitors, but C and C++ are more like standards and less like one tool with a handful of people working on it.