Comment by ryao
4 months ago
C, unlike C++, does not really force new versions onto you, even if dependencies begin using them. That said, Linux switched to C11. Newer versions of C will gradually be adopted, despite the incompatibilities this causes for C++.
As for WG 14, they incorporated numerous C++isms into C. While you claim that they did not go far enough, I am sure you will find many who would say that they went too far.
I very much doubt it, when someone decides to make full of use of recent ISO C on a C library header file.
I claim they aren't focused on what matters, we don't need C++isms into C, we already have C++, and C should have been done as language back in C89.
Anyone that wanted more has always been able to use C++ instead, or Objective-C on Apple/NeXT land.
What we need is for WG14 to finally take security regarding strings, arrays seriouslys, not yet another reboot of functions using (ptr, length) pairs.
> I very much doubt it, when someone decides to make full of use of recent ISO C on a C library header file.
I have tested this WRT _Generic as it was a concern. It turns out that GCC will accept it on older versions, which permits compatibility. You might feel that this is wrong, but that is how things are right now.