[david927]

The problem is that it's still letting hardware dictate the terms. There should be a meeting of the two: the VM.

Anything that compiles to assembly is doomed to be a reheating of C leftovers.

[draegtun]

> Anything that compiles to assembly is doomed to be a reheating of C leftovers.

Thats what Red/System is aiming at, ie. an alternative to C - http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs-light.html#secti...

PS. Hmmm... who/why downvoted my parent comment? The comment is factually correct, non-opinionated and with no added embellishments :(