Comment by stephencanon
3 years ago
It’s worse—-almost all of them already use a nonstandard variant of C. The committee is bending over backwards to accommodate them, but they literally _do not care what the standard says_, so this doesn’t even benefit them. Most will keep using a busted C89 toolchain with a haphazard mix of extensions no matter what the standard does.
Even if they fork the language, standard still provides the common baseline for all, which is useful.