On 1/12/23 07:25, Walter Bright wrote:

But also, adding dynamic arrays to C won't make the currently existing C code safer, the one they care about, because no one's gonna send the money to update their C89/99/whatever code to C23/26. Even if they did, there's no guarantee others would as well.

You can incrementally fix code, as I do with the dmd source code (originally in C) regularly.

Yes; _source code_. This is the crux of the matter. Can't incrementally fix source code that you don't have access to.
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