I'm the creator of the Odin programming language and I originally tried to approach it by fixing C. And my conclusion was that C could not be fixed.
I made my own standard library to replace libc. The lack of safety is hard to do when you don't have a decent enough type system. C's lack of a proper array type is a good example of this.
Before making Odin, I tried making my own C compiler with some extensions, specifically adding proper arrays (slices) with bounds checking, and adding `defer`. This did help things a lot, but it wasn't enough. C still had fundamentally broken semantics in so many places that just "fixing" the problems of C in C was not enough.
I didn't want to make Odin initially, but it was the conclusion I had after trying to fix something that cannot be fixed.
I made my own standard library to replace libc. The lack of safety is hard to do when you don't have a decent enough type system. C's lack of a proper array type is a good example of this.
Before making Odin, I tried making my own C compiler with some extensions, specifically adding proper arrays (slices) with bounds checking, and adding `defer`. This did help things a lot, but it wasn't enough. C still had fundamentally broken semantics in so many places that just "fixing" the problems of C in C was not enough.
I didn't want to make Odin initially, but it was the conclusion I had after trying to fix something that cannot be fixed.