mmm... the assertion that C is subject to bit-rot because it's maintainers keep adding fancy new features doesn't seem to be supported by the factual record. I wonder what compiler they're using that makes them think the language changes so often that you have to keep coming back to the source every couple years to repair it. Rust and Python have that problem, of course, but there's code I wrote in 1982 that still compiles with gcc and clang (and seems to do the same thing it did when compiled with whatever compiler was on 3B2's in the 80s.)