There have been attempts over the years. See here, a decade ago: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287 https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287 > eventually I cam

There have been attempts over the years. See here, a decade ago: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287 https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287 > eventually I came to the depressing conclusion that there’s no way to get a group of C experts — even if they are knowledgable, intelligent, and otherwise reasonable — to agree on the Friendly C dialect. There are just too many variations, each with its own set of performance tradeoffs, for consensus to be possible.