> but I'm curious why the pace of language is so slow. I guess it's because C has more or less stabilized and thus further revisions are less necessary? That i

> but I'm curious why the pace of language is so slow. I guess it's because C has more or less stabilized and thus further revisions are less necessary? That is a big part of it. C is an old, stable, complete language. There is also the existence of gnu extensions, which bridge the gap between language revisions. For example, anonymous unions were added in C11 but they have been a gnu extension since forever.