Cyclone was supposed to be a safer dialect of C. Shouldn’t it have replaced C by now, while also adding some improvements and reducing the burden of legacy code?
being closed source probably didnt help. The website cites Rust as being a successor for some of its ideas, though.
It is not close-sourced. There are various repositories out there:
Oh you’re right. The website wasn’t giving those vibes that’s for sure, and the wiki didnt suggest what license it was distributed under during its lifecycle. Was it always open source do you know?
The project is almost 24 years old, the same age as me. It does not appear to have any sort of license in it’s earlier stage, but later on, they’ve added GPL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1.
Eventually people will ask the sabe about Go… Rust seems to be on the path of success thought.
Why do you say Go is going away? Afaik it’s in heavy use atm.
Wait, Go is dead/dying? That sucks, I’ve always wanted to get more proficient in that language and write some production code with it.
Licensing, potencial analytics right into the the thing, lots of other shady moves by google… and people started using it like a catch all replacement for everything including PHP which doesn’t make sense. Go is good for low level stuff not higher level business cases, on those you’ll be just wasting your time.