[chongli]

I have to say, of all programming languages, C is the one which gets the most strident opposition to the most minor of changes.

I would love to read your reasoning because so far I have not been able to understand the stiff resistance to what I see are very positive changes aimed at cleaning up so much of the mess that is C.

[johnisgood]

I found one of the threads, there were others, too, IIRC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41854897