With all the time-loss, money-loss, opportunity-loss, C/C++/Js must have been rule out as the worst tools for our job decades ago, by ANY RATIONAL ENGINER.
And instead of band-aid them, the sane path is to freeze them and only apply critical patch and use something else. And other options are already know, have been proved and could have be a better foundation, except because developers are irrational like hell and don't wanna true progress at all.
Because exist some obvious flaws in the languages that could be solved forever.
For example, pascal is way faster to compile than C. Most pascal-variants are like this, yet provide the ability to do low-level stuff.
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The main thing is that for some reason, we pretend is not possible to improve a language, or is sacrilege to remove problematic features, or to left-behind some things.
Programming languages are like any other software. It have UX problems, and them can be solved. Then, why not?
The mind-limiting answer is because break the language is costly and the programmers are so dedicated that expect them to never again check for null for millons of lines of code is too traumatic. Or maybe add namespaces to C++ is too hard.. but templates are ok.
SUPER-wrong.
With all the time-loss, money-loss, opportunity-loss, C/C++/Js must have been rule out as the worst tools for our job decades ago, by ANY RATIONAL ENGINER.
And instead of band-aid them, the sane path is to freeze them and only apply critical patch and use something else. And other options are already know, have been proved and could have be a better foundation, except because developers are irrational like hell and don't wanna true progress at all.