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by viraptor 485 days ago
Here's a thing... There's been many of them and they all die because they don't provide enough benefit over the status quo. Cyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language) is probably the most known one. There's Safe C https://www.safe-c.org/ A bit further from just "dialect" there's OOC https://ooc-lang.github.io/ and Vala https://vala.dev/

But the only thing that really took off was effort to change things at the very base level rather than patch issues: Rust, Zig, Go.

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> But the only thing that really took off was effort to change things at the very base level rather than patch issues.

Exactly, that's the most important takeaway I got from all the discussions here: I will be patching issues while people are flooding in for better general approaches.

I might shift much of my direction, but lucky that there are many "lessons" (like ooc) to learn.