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Oh, he's just trying to sell Rust ;)

IMHO, Javascript is the C++ of dynamic languages. It suffers from similar early bad design decisions, which now a "committee" tries to fix by piling layer upon layer of complexity upon the broken base without ever being able to undo those early bad decisions.

Actual C is a clean and simple language both compared to Javascript and C++.

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> Javascript is the C++ of dynamic languages

LOL, Have you ever heard of something called PHP?

> Actual C is a clean and simple language both compared to Javascript and C++.

Why do people keep on calling C "simple"? C isn't simple it's basic, it is absolutely not simple to use at all, and given the mess around macro and pre-processing, it wouldn't call it clean either.

I don't think thw committee's options are really so limited. They could totally have defined a JavaScript 2 not backward compatible with JavaScript 1. Browsers, of course would have then had to support both, but who cares? Especially if there were a good FFI between the two, noone would have been inconvenienced (except browser developers)

Wasn't that what Dart tried to do?

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