[flohofwoe]

These are all just your personal preferences. Just use another language instead which better matches your taste, nobody forces you to use C and there are plenty of more opinionated alternatives.

FWIW, the standard library being stuck in the K&R era is an actual problem since it doesn't make use of more modern language features and some functions are downright footgun magnets, but nobody quite agrees what a modern stdlib should look like, so a stdlib2 probably will never happen.

[Luker88]

Just today some friends sent me this: https://stefansf.de/c-quiz

Yesterday I would have agreed that C is a nice and simple language, today I believe it is a cursed one that we just happen to make work somehow.

[rixed]

HN is for technical discussions. Even if the parent were only judging by his own personal preferences that would be relevant here.

Note: I've written a lot of C by profession and passion, yet I find parent's criticisms mostly valid. At least he did not mention rust ;)

[thayne]

> Just use another language instead

That isn't really an option if you are working on an existing project written in c.

[tialaramex]

Nah, I spent many years writing C for a living. That library isn't from the K&R era, it's from C89, the problems I'm talking about are much more fundamental.

Of course nobody forces me to use C, which is why I stopped writing C a few years ago.