Comment by pjmlp

If only C actually had fat pointers as Dennis Ritchie, one of the authors, proposed to WG14.

It is quite relevant to note that the C authors, were keen to explore Alef as alternative on Plan 9, and based on the learnings reduced C's role on Inferno, and eventually took part in Go's design.

Even though they were not keen into using C++ (Plan 9 doesn't even support it), they were also aware C wasn't to be used for everything.