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The issue seems to be the C++ committee, never heard anyone complain about C's committee.

The C committee's big problem is being too conservative. But you don't hear too many complaints because people just use C++.

I think the reason is more that the goals of the C committee align better with the goals of C programmers (which is a language that's a tool and not a playground for language designers).

Unlike C++, C also remained a simple language (which is definitely a side effect of the "conservatism" of the C committee).

That's what he means; like the puddle which marvelously fits its own hole, anyone for whom C in all of its aspects is not very close to optimal has long ago moved to another language.

Wait what? C's greatest strength IMO is that it hardly change at all.

The mental overload of some small things added every 10th year and in use 20 years later is how I like it.

Amen.

If you crave excitement, there's Rust and Go. (And I say that in the vein of "may you live in exciting times". ;D)

Oh, and there's D if you want to immersively roleplay like you're in an alternate timeline, like Infinite Jest or something.

Go check the complaints on anything past C11, or how after 50 years WG14 keeps ignoring security issues.

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