Null was a trillion dollar mistake.

Pointers and pointer math were a 10 billion dollar mistake.

Unchecked array access is a several billion dollar mistake.

Goto has its place: consolidated resource error unwind cleanup. That's basically its only valid use except for mechanically-generated finite state machines. Beyond that, don't bother. Other programming languages use reference counting and lifetimes to manage resources.

    int
    foo() {
      void *b0 = malloc(1000);
      if (!b0) goto err0;

      /* do something */


      void *b1 = malloc(1000);
      if (!b1) goto err1;

      /* do something else */

      void *b2 = malloc(1000);
      if (!b2) goto err1;

      /* keep going */

      /* ... */

      free(b2);
      free(b1);
      free(b0);
      return 0;

    err3:
      free(b2);
    err2:
      free(b1);
    err1:
      free(b0);
    err0:
      return 1;
    }