More features being added to a newer version of the standard doesn't prevent you from staying with the old version. Your trusty old C89 compiler will still cont

More features being added to a newer version of the standard doesn't prevent you from staying with the old version. Your trusty old C89 compiler will still continue to work. Speaking from experience, GCC/Clang extensions are pretty useful when you can afford to use them and it would be nice to have some of that stuff standardized because a lot of code I see in the wild is already using them. The time for warning about C becoming a mess of incompatible extensions has already passed unfortunately, and the only group that can solve this is a standards committee.