Pretty much the entire raison d’être for new programming languages like TrapC, Rust, Zig, and kin is this fixation on ‘memory safety’, with the idea being that the problem with C is that it ...

TrapC is an extension of the C programming language that removes the keywords goto and union, adds the keywords trap and alias, and adopts a few features from C++ that improve safety such as ...

C++ overtook C in the top three of the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index this month, a significant shakeup following gradual growth of C++ and gradual decline of C over the last year.

The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, its lowest position in the monthly index ever. The index was begun in 2001.