And this is the main problem. C, alike JS, ruin the chances of anything else to take over. Pascal is one that could have been much better to rely on. D is nice. Rust is too, but the chances of them to replace C is like typescript replacing JS.

In the other hand, I wish C get allowed to improve much more, and do python2/python3 split (with better handling of the situation, of course), to remove lingering issues, clean the syntax/API, and just add algebraic data types, match and Option<T>, and a good UTF-8 string (the only additions that I think are worthwhile without making C too different).

I envision a C-good that transpile to C-classic and slowly take over.