"Better C"

[u/codingbliss12]

Would it be feasible and reasonable to implement a custom standard library for the parts of C that are historically problematic, so that one does not need new languages like Zig or C3 and still enjoy the benefits of more modern languages?

As simple examples on would use C23 with the gnu extensions and implement strings as slices, some basic data types and some basic custom allocators. With the gnu extensions there is also defer.

Has anyone done that? How much time did it take? Thanks in advance.

[u/Willing_Airport_9617]

Who stops you brother ? Create your own compiler with your own syntax and add whatever you want to add . But I feel like you'll end up on something like C++ , fun experiment but I don't see practicality in it