The over adherence to bloat in the name of backwards compatibility holds the language back - these are incredibly conservative changes that reflect practices which have already been used for decades!
Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:00PM
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What new keywords? Everything new goes into the reserved namespace with macros to look like the C++ versions.
C23 is about to
- add keywords that was valid identifiers before
- remove K&R parameter syntax
- change semantics of the most popular function argument list declaration
- forbid representations other than 2's complement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395016