[mamcx]

Today is easy (finally we have Rust, Zig, Odin, Swift, Go etc that show marked improvements), but the op is correct: A lot of progress was stalled because people defend sub optimal tools.

Every time somebody suggest "but C is wrong" the answer was "You should not do the wrong, be careful every time and things will be fine!"

P.D: Yesterday we have pascal/ADA/effiel/ocalm and others, but the major issues is that C/JS should have be improved to remove the bad things, and add the good things. Is not as if what or why to do it was a mystery, it was just the fear and arrogance against change.

And this cause too much inertia against "reinvent the wheel" and too much hate against anybody that even try