As a professional C++ programmer who hasn't used C since the compiler limited me to C89 (so 2015ish), I am very impressed by how clean C code can look these day

As a professional C++ programmer who hasn't used C since the compiler limited me to C89 (so 2015ish), I am very impressed by how clean C code can look these days. This was a great talk. There are a lot of really good things in modern C, and if I ever have to use C again I will have some great new tools. And I found the "25k allocations for a single character entered" in chrome extremely shocking; it definitely pays to think about allocations in C++. Given the improvements, I found the warning not to use libc unless absolutely necessary very surprising. I suppose C++ has parts we know to avoid, but I wonder why, with all the improvements to the C language, there haven't been the same improvements to the standard library? It appears C programmers are used to rewriting pretty basic functionality for every new project, or carting around their personal utility library. I'm also still not at all convinced by macros.