[flohofwoe]

There's a lot of room to explore between C and Rust, while not compromising on low-level features and performance (e.g. "performance" and "safety" are both not absolutes, and also not excluding each other. I hope that there will be many new languages (the more the merrier) exploring that space.

But we'll live for a very long time with C code, it will most likely outlive us all, because important infrastructure code is never really replaced, it just becomes a new sediment layer.

[pjmlp]

Which is why stuff like Checked C, or something like SDS should really be made part of C, as UNIX clones are going to outlive us anyway.

However just like rotating blade covers, butcher metal gloves, seat belts, helmets,..., apparently external forces like government regulations are required to make WG14 act accordingly.