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user-inactivated  ·  4327 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"

Well, I feel like it would do the software industry some good if there was a low-level language that was still very high level (in that it has high-level abstractions) with C speed (or faster) and C portability. I dunno. I'm also fascinated by how nothing's managed to come along after all this time and pushed C off its throne.

Aren't building and using new abstractions what programming is all about? Why not have new abstractions in a low-level setting?