C++ “Successor” Language / Syntax

Cilia is similar to

and a bit like the evolution

from Java to Kotlin,
from Objective-C to Swift.

Why a new language, why not extending C++?

The CamelCase style could basically be achieved in C++, too.

C++ could be extended by some features:

Aliasing of member names (functions and variables) seems necessary for having a CamelCase standard library, that is realized as a shallow but “perfect” wrapper for the C++ standard library (i.e. a translation layer).

But some parts are impossible – or at least extremely unlikely – to include in a future C++ standard:

Const reference as default type for function parameters
Fixing C++ “wrong defaults”
- Restricting integral promotions and no implicit narrowing conversions, etc.
New array declaration (Int[3] array instead of Int array[3], Int[] array instead of vector<Int> array)
New/simplified keywords
No trailing semicolons

Why “Cilia”?

Starting with “C” is a kind of tradition.
All the most obvious names (like C2, C3, Cpp2, Cone, D and many others) were already taken ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Julia is a nice language, so now Cilia got its “cute” name.

“C/Celia” comes to mind.
I like C++ much more than plain C, but “C++/Cilia” is a bit unwieldy.