There's a lot of feature gap between C and C++. Many including me like to program in C but want just a _little_ more safeguards, syntax sugar and some establish

There's a lot of feature gap between C and C++. Many including me like to program in C but want just a _little_ more safeguards, syntax sugar and some established ideas (like defer) that improve the programming experience. Now there are languages like Odin, Zig and C3 that are trying to fill that niche but having C evolve slowly to accommodate such users is also a great idea. C99 added Designated Initializers which IMHO is probably the most innovative declarative syntax to initialize anything and it took C++ roughly 20 years to adopt such a thing (and then they had to nerf it).