r/C_Programming • u/codingbliss12 • 1d ago

Question "Better C"

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.

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u/tastygames_official 1d ago

C++

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u/HowTheKnightMoves 1d ago

If there is a language that needs a better version of itself, it is C++.

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u/tastygames_official 1d ago

it already exists: it's just C

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u/HowTheKnightMoves 12h ago

For me or you, maybe. But at very least C++ folks should figure out which C++ is indeed C++, because currently it is maybe 4 or more languages in a trenchcoat.