> for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NULL isn't on address 0 and so on.
This seems totally misconceived to me as a basis for standardizing a language in 2022. You are optimizing for the few at the expense of the many.
I get that these strange architectures need a language. Why does it have to be C or C++? They can use a nonstandardized variant of C, but why hobble the language that is 99% used on normal hardware with misfeatures that are justified by trule obscure platforms.
This seems totally misconceived to me as a basis for standardizing a language in 2022. You are optimizing for the few at the expense of the many.
I get that these strange architectures need a language. Why does it have to be C or C++? They can use a nonstandardized variant of C, but why hobble the language that is 99% used on normal hardware with misfeatures that are justified by trule obscure platforms.