This one thing https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html would have helped a lot. Imo give

This one thing https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html would have helped a lot. Imo given 1) GCC and LLVM have had extensions like that for a long time now, 2) most arrive at that/similar destination at some point (b/c it's so useful), and 3) afaik standardization was supposed to standardize current best/popular practice that is widespread but non-standard (and not invent new untried untested stuff), I think that C standardization committee dropped the ball (and kept dropping it for a very long time) as far as C arrays (and matrices and ndarrays etc) go.