[pjmlp]

> C will stick around for decades and will continue to be picked up by newcomers. It doesn't have to stay as dangerous and uncompromising as it is now.

Exactly, even if most of us don't touch it directly, we need to use systems that make an heavy use of C (including Objective-C and C++), so it would already be an improvement to our computing stack if C could be improved as such.