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> Similar to zig, odin, and others, its basically just C with some syntax conveniences.

Extremely reductive and untrue. As someone who still writes/deals with C daily, there is room for a successor that still attempts to be a thin wrapper around an abstract CPU. The C type system and preprocessor has some glaring flaws that are not fixable in a backwards compatible way.

parent davemp 6 days ago

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