"It's a huge community, there're bound to be lots of camps and lots of people trying to crack the same nut different ways. What's wrong with competition? I personally think it's a fantastic community, and find others lacking by comparison."

Why created the c community a paper for to create a "c" version? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_POSIX_library)

One reason was to establish a good standard for all people that you can run your code everywhere without effort.

Our history showed many times is better to create a standard instead of many non-standards because that creates unnecessary complexity on our world. Look at the pipeline concept of unix. More and more companies steal this concept to build real time web applications without having so much state (that is concept is pretty old). Our ancestors created all of the wonderful things like tree, pipes, functional and etc. We are just sometimes too stupid to reuse it.