There have been a few attempts to make C safer. However, one of the most popular aspects of C is the fact that it works everywhere. That means vendors are expec

There have been a few attempts to make C safer. However, one of the most popular aspects of C is the fact that it works everywhere. That means vendors are expected to have a working compiler for their platform. The easiest way to do that is to keep C features minimal. C99 was controversial because it asked these vendors to comply with changes in the language. C11 actually reduced many of the requirements in C99, making them optional. Sometimes this can be frustrating for programmers. Luckily clang-tidy and various sanitizers or valgrind can catch many issues you will encounter writing C.