Just to clarify, I am definitely also not in the camp that thought that C was going away, rather that my general feeling is that most developers are afraid of i

Just to clarify, I am definitely also not in the camp that thought that C was going away, rather that my general feeling is that most developers are afraid of it because of issues like this, and more sane semantics regarding one of the more widely-used aspects of any language would allow for greater adoption while not sacrificing reliability or backwards-compatibility. IOW, I think it would be a win-win.