Nothing is really needed, C89 was good enough.

Dots are not the same, nobody wants to use chaining like underscore/lodash allowed because it makes dead code elimination impossible.

K&R C was good enough for UNIX System V, why bother with C89.

K&R C was the apex, we've just been going downhill since.

	▲	lioeters 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		This but unironically.