The long goodbye to C

> Learning Python in 1997 was quite the watershed event for me. It was wonderful – like having the Lisp of my earliest years back, but with good libraries! And a full POSIX binding! And an object system that didn’t suck!

… I don't think ESR gets CLOS. It's an object system which doesn't suck, and is far more capable than Python's.

This is a dupe to the already full fledged discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670423

No systems programming successor to C other than Go?

Why not a subset of C++, akin to the convention-based subset of C adopted for the Linux kernel? ESR doesn't say, at least not here.