I used to love C for its simplicity. There was just no surprises, and the limited feature set enforced a certain programming style that also happens to run very well on modern CPUs.
But the C standard library is just awful. It's so inconsistent and full of quirks you just have to know. Like how some string functions allow you to specify a size, while others don't. And how strtok keeps track of an internal state and behaves differently on subsequent calls.
I wish there was a language that as simple and limited as C, but with modern (and portable) functions for things like strings, networking, graphics and so on.
But the C standard library is just awful. It's so inconsistent and full of quirks you just have to know. Like how some string functions allow you to specify a size, while others don't. And how strtok keeps track of an internal state and behaves differently on subsequent calls.
I wish there was a language that as simple and limited as C, but with modern (and portable) functions for things like strings, networking, graphics and so on.