Speculation: it's the c++ we needed, not the one we had
Reading other comments, looks like it's rather dead than alive
eC is still very much alive, but it never gained much traction, as few languages without a major backer do. Our latest efforts over the last decade have been more about using eC rather than trying to make it gain popularity, as well as working on geospatial Open Standards.
Just wanted to point out that the project and language (and the related FOSS Cross-Platform Ecere SDK) are alive and well, and I do hope to find time or resources to address some of the issues pointed out in this thread.
Cheers!
I'd been looking for a language like this for maybe 10-15 years, but I had never heard of eC until now. I know about Zig, D, Nim, Odin, C2, C3, and a bunch of other obscure languages aimed at C-like use cases, but not eC. I'm not sure how it can get more traction.