@freakazoid @packetcat i think there’s a lot of desire to break free of the design takes of the 80’s and find a good, modern replacement to C, Posix, and all the other infrastructure of contemporary computing

what doesn’t exist is a community with enough size and impact to actually make that happen in a lasting way. there are attempts, but nobody is convinced we will still want to live with them after 10 years. and there isn’t the kind of broad, principled standardization with multiple working implementations that has enabled GNU, Linux, OpenBSD, and macOS to develop alongside one another and contribute to each other’s code

that’s the niche i see that needs filling. and it starts with community, because that’s where what we have is lacking the most