[Isognoviastoma]

C begins to increase rate of adding breaking changes.

C23 is about to

- add keywords that was valid identifiers before

- remove K&R parameter syntax

- change semantics of the most popular function argument list declaration

- forbid representations other than 2's complement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395016

[duped]

The over adherence to bloat in the name of backwards compatibility holds the language back - these are incredibly conservative changes that reflect practices which have already been used for decades!

[kevin_thibedeau]

What new keywords? Everything new goes into the reserved namespace with macros to look like the C++ versions.