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The C23 edition of Modern C

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515 points bwidlar | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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jhatemyjob ◴[16 Oct 24 00:13 UTC] No.41854389[source]▶
Can someone link me to an article that explains why C is basically frozen at C99 for all practical purposes? Few projects worth talking about leverage features from C11 and newer
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1. flohofwoe ◴[16 Oct 24 14:40 UTC] No.41859595[source]▶
Microsoft basically sabotaged C99 by not implementing any of its features until around 2015 in the Visual Studio C compiler, and then still took until 2019 before they acknowledged their failure and started supporting more recent C versions again (MSVC is still reliably behind Clang and GCC when it comes to their C frontend though).

And back around 2010 MSVC still mattered a lot (which sounds weird from today's pov where most developers appear to have moved to Linux).

But OTH, few projects actually need C11 features (and C11 actually took one thing away from C99: VLAs - nothing of value was lost though).

C23 might be the first version since C99 that's actually worth upgrading to for many C code bases.

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2. spacechild1 ◴[16 Oct 24 14:56 UTC] No.41859810[source]▶
C11 gave us one very important thing: a standardized memory model! Just like in C++11, you can finally write cross-platform multithreaded code with standardized atomics, synchronization primitives and threads. Unfortunately, compiler/library support is still lacking...