typedef struct pixel {
        int r;
        int g;
        int b;
    } pixel_t;

    #define PIXEL(red, green, blue) \
    (pixel_t)                       \
    {                               \
      .r = (red),                   \
      .g = (green),                 \
      .b = (blue)
    }

    void display_pixel(pixel_t pixel);

    display_pixel(PIXEL(255, 255, 255));

    return PIXEL(255, 255, 255);

    display_pixel((pixel_t) {.r = 255, .g = 255, .b = 255});

The compatibility with the C library is up to C11 for example.

Google even sponsored a massive effort to clean the Linux kernel of their use.

A subset of designated initializers is supported in C++20.

It's interesting that the other C descendant Objective-C has decided to "respect" its C subset instead of messing with it, with the result that new C standards are automatically supported in ObjC.

VLAs are dead, a broken design fixed in C11 by removing it from the standard, no idea why everyone keeps referring to them.

Took them only 21 years... And this standard being so recent, most projects won't have that for years to come.

https://godbolt.org/z/GW59rM

In your example,

    Point point = {.z = 2.0, .x = 1.0};