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Author mentions four increasingly obscure C replacements (first I've heard of Odin) without mentioning that the creators of the original C and Unix went on to make Go.

Go does not have manual memory management. Despite (actually because of) that captures the spirit and design goal of the original C beautifully. It's a minimalist systems programming language.

One of the amazing things about Go is the standard library-- the thing he complains about with C. The Go standard library is incredibly readable. It's night and day from C/C++ where opening glibc/STL etc is assault on the senses.






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