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
Zig and Rust and TS are a start
Ironically, that’s part of why we can’t have nice things. People who aren’t open to other viewpoints and refuse to compromise when possible impede progress.
but
what do we have other than our opinions? I think everything sucks so that's what I said.
(Coincidentally this is one of my chief complaints about Go: despite being about the same age as Rust, it took the avenue of discarding quite a lot of advancements in programming language theory and ergonomics since C)
