It feels like there's room for a better C today. I don't mean a really different language. I'm thinking something that is semantically C, and 99% syntactically

It feels like there's room for a better C today. I don't mean a really different language. I'm thinking something that is semantically C, and 99% syntactically C, but that a much better story around macros, builds, modules, linking, volatile pointers, and all of the other C foot guns. Not C++ or Rust (though I love Rust). I'm thinking just a smoothed out C. And done in a way where a codebase can incrementally move from C to better C, one file at a time.