yeah, its a better c, but like wouldnt it be nice if c had stadardized fat pointers so that if you move from project to project you don't have to triple check the semantics? for example and like say 50+ "learnings" from 40 years c that are canonized and first class in the language + stdlib
What to say from WG14, when even one of C authors could not make it happen?
Notice how none of them kept involved with WG14, just did their own thing with C in Plan 9, and with Inferno, C was only used for the kernel, with everything else done in Limbo, finalizing by minor contributions to Go's first design.
People that worship UNIX and C, should spend some time learning that the authors moved on, trying to improve the flaws they considered their original work suffered from.
