[psychoslave]

Maybe an unique historical opportunity for a tool "good enough" to do the job, seizing the widespread adoption possibility, and letting no room in this ecological niche.

That is, yes, there is room for stable languages, but it’s already fully occupied. So only languages targeting market with a mindset open to "better moving continuously anywhere than risking sclerosis" can flourish.

Now, that might be a bit caricatural of course.

[pjmlp]

C has had plenty of updates, see my reply.

[psychoslave]

Stable is not frozen. Yes, C got updates, it doesn’t mean they introduced large sets of features, which is what this thread is about. C did not incorporated much things over the years, unlike C++ for example.

[adwn]

The introduction of the C11 memory model was a huge change. Superficially, only a small amount of features was added, but the impact on writing parallel/concurrent code in a portable way is hard to overstate.

[pjmlp]

I recommend a thorough read of ISO standards and accompanying documents.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/projects