5 Years Later: The First Win

New in C2y is an operator that does something people have been asking us for, for decades:

The first two meetings of C after C23 was finalized are over, and we have started working on C2y. We decided that this cycle we’re not going to do that “Bugfix” followed by “Release” stuff, because that proved to be a REALLY bad idea that killed a ton of momentum and active contributors during the C11 to C17 timeframe. So, this time, we’re...

Constant integer-typed (including enumeration-typed) object declarations in C that are immediately initialized with an integer constant expression should just be constant expressions. That’s it.

Ever since I finished publishing the “defer” paper and successfully defended it on its first go-around (it now has tentative approval to go to a Technical Specification, I just need to obtain the necessary written boilerplate to do so), an old criticism

I received a few complaints that #embed was difficult to implement and hard to optimize. And, the people making these claims