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People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change. The only thing the ISO committee should be adding is stuff for filling in the holes
by HexDecOctBin 1y ago
People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change. The only thing the ISO committee should be adding is stuff for filling in the holes in language (C23's Improved Tag Compatibility and __VA_OPT__ are good examples), not add features that were never part of C and were never supposed to be there.
Your question can be reflected back to you: if you want an ever changing languages, go to Java, C# or C++, why mess with C?
- xboxnolifes 1y ago> People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change. The same thing can be said for every other language, yet they change.
- oguz-ismail 1y agoWell they shouldn't have. It was much more fun to program in Python 2.7 and Java 7, I wouldn't touch those languages with a five feet pole these days
- lifthrasiir 1y agoWhy specifically Python 2.7 and not, like, 1.5? Python 1 and 2 are as different as 2 and 3 (that is, surprisingly not much).
- WalterBright 1y agoA common thing people write about D is don't add any more features except for their feature proposals. :-)
- brabel 1y agoThis is funny because Java people say the same about Kotlin and Scala.
- pjmlp 1y agoNo, many people chose C, because they had to.
- sarchertech 1y agoYeah but those people are running it on some platform where it’s the only choice. And they are probably running a subset of C99. The likelihood of new features ever making it to those platforms is close to zero.
- pjmlp 1y agoThere is hardly any new C compiler that isn't C11.
- sarchertech 1y agoI’ve been out of embedded for a bit but last I checked almost nothing actually implemented all of C11?
- pjmlp 1y agoThere is hardly any compiler worth using that isn't a fork of either GCC or clang. So unless they are stuck on a pre-historic fork, they support C11 as much as clang and GCC do. Exception for stuff like PIC, Z80,... Which didn't even support proper C on their glory days.
- WalterBright 1y agoC added the absurd normalized Unicode identifiers.