Comment by pjmlp

7 hours ago

Basically what the world has lost by ignoring Modula-2 and Object Pascal, and going down the C path.

The spirit of Pascal lives on in Nim.

It's arguably the closest modern language (with a sizeable community) to the Wirthian languages.

  • I would add that Delphi still follows along, enough for an yearly conference in Germany, and that C# since getting Native AOT and the low level programming improvements, is close enough to Modula-3 design.

    There is Swift as well, although quite far from Wirthian compile times.