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Calling convention? That's the most exciting feature? It doesn't boost productivity, reduce compile times, offer a larger standard library or create a boost a reasonable language would provide?

No thanks google. I've been saying that for years now. You jumped the shark

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The author has expertise in C++ and is excited about a C++-like language that addresses the pain point of C++'s calling convention which will _never_ be fixed by the standards committee due to their commitment on backwards compatibility.

This was not an overview of the language, so this comment seems a little uncharitable to the author.

Having slightly better optimizations due to changing ABI doesn't sound worth the friction of having another language in the codebase. Especially when the guys who invented it (google) is famous for sunsetting things and couldn't get their peers to use bazel, the other thing google invented

I don't care if this sounds uncharitable, I see the pitfalls and I seen so many people get sucked in to prior pitfalls

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