> Does C really need this? No. > Do languages need to grow in this way? No. > The overriding virtue of C is simplicity. It's no longer simple, especially n

> Does C really need this? No. > Do languages need to grow in this way? No. > The overriding virtue of C is simplicity. It's no longer simple, especially not with the C11 memory model (which got retrofitted from C++11, and is totally incomprehensible without reading multiple hundreds of pages of PhD dissertations); however, gratuitously complicating C shouldn't be done.