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.
replyFWIW, 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.
Just today some friends sent me this: https://stefansf.de/c-quiz
replyYesterday 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.
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.
replyOf course nobody forces me to use C, which is why I stopped writing C a few years ago.
Sure but it's definitely true that a significant part of the problem with C is that it's standard library is crap. So if you are forced to use C for some reason this could help.
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