D as A Better C?

[Xinok]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 21:13:58 UTC, Peter Alexander 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 20:53:06 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> But the feature would be very simple to implement. You just 
>> avoid outputting any runtime type info, and avoid any compiler 
>> hooks into the runtime.
>>
>> There is no requirement to do anything else. The language is 
>> finished. C's standard library becomes the standard library.
>
> Who manages the releases of better C?

If there is indeed a market for it, then new talent will join the 
community and contribute to the project. If not, then it will 
become a poorly maintained and unsupported feature which is 
eventually stripped from the compiler due to lack of use.

An interesting statistic on the Linux kernel:
An analysis of the Linux kernel showed 75 percent of the code 
from December 2008 to January 2010 was developed by programmers 
working for corporations, leaving about 18 percent to volunteers 
and 7% unclassified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Community

I don't know of many people who do embedded programming for 
personal reasons. The majority of interest stems from 
corporations, not individuals. And that's where we'll find 
maintainers for this project.