Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[Walter Bright]

On 8/26/2019 4:00 AM, IGotD- wrote:
> The speaker is right about one thing and that is that a systems programming 
> language must not have a runtime dependency, or the runtime is completely OS 
> independent. With this definition this includes C, C++, D (-betterC only) and 
> Rust. As far as I know Go is runtime dependent and does not qualify for this 
> definition.

C++ requires a runtime library that supports exception handling. DasBetterC does 
not need anything that C doesn't have.