Zig mentions D in justifying its existence

Thu Nov 16 10:04:48 UTC 2017

On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 02:48:27 UTC, Tony wrote:
> I am surprised C hasn't tried to become a "better C".

Most of the people that wanted to work on a spec for a better C 
has already moved to C++ or other languages. The ones that remain 
want C to stay simple, but they have added new stuff, even 
generics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)

Ola