@ryo @charliebrownau @furgar C was my first programming language, actually. The second one was Emacs Lisp. Also, I don't like Go, I would unironically rather just use JavaScript. To me not being able to have unused variables by default is a deal breaker, because that is part of how I organize problems before solving them, I think about the variables that I need.

Should be just warnings, but nope, errors. They also force their retarded style on you, and fuck that. It's just And it wasn't designed by particularly competent designers, just people that are very good at shitting things out really fast and then never changing them, which is why they always won in the tech industry. Hell, JavaScript won that way too as far as I'm aware. It was supposed to be Scheme, but at the time, Java was the trendy thing to use, so it had to look like Java.

Also, if you're willing to use a garbage-collected language, there are plenty of options. Lisp is one. Ada is another. Maybe Haskell, never tried that one. Still not all that aware of what functional programming is, I just know that some things that I like are considered functional staples, apparently (filter/remove-if, fold/reduce, map/mapcar).