Comment by siev

I really like the design choices they've made. Namely:

- Once you cut out the legacy nonsense out of C, you can then add a few nice modern features to your language and still end up with something that's smaller and simpler than C.

- Performance optimizations are possible. But by default, simplicity is always picked over performance. (i.e. most UB is eliminated, even if it hurts performance)

- A few basic pointer features go a long way in eliminating memory most memory safety bugs. There are non-nullable pointers, ranges with automatic bound checks, and no C strings.

- They get a lot of mileage out of their tagged union type. It allows for elegant implementations of algebraic types, polymorphism, and error handling.

- The error handling!