Defer seems more like a solution to making cleanup easier and less error prone, preventing memory/fd/mutex leaks. It wouldn't significantly improve memory safet

Defer seems more like a solution to making cleanup easier and less error prone, preventing memory/fd/mutex leaks. It wouldn't significantly improve memory safety IMO. Adding a "slice" type with checked bounds (something basically every C codebase in existence ends up reimplementing somehow) would be a much greater improvement IMO. But overall even though I still use C almost daily, I'm a bit skeptical of the committee's direction with these changes. They added half assed generics through macros, now a defer mechanism and a bunch of other stuff that's, IMO, out of scope for C. People have already tried to make a "better C" with all these bells and whistles, it's called C++, and it's still mostly backward compatible with C. IMO C should be considered to be in "maintenance mode" these days. And again, my IRL job involves writing a lot of it, so it's not like I don't care about it.