> Good, we can ignore them.

Who do you think you're representing? At best you only speak for yourself. It's perfectly fine if you choose to never update any tool you use, but that's just your personal opinion. You are free to stick with older standard versions of even compiler releases, but that is no justification to prevent everyone around you to improve their developer experience.

> It's not a language for everybody (...)

You might believe it isn't, but that's hardly a sane or rational belief.

Reality isn't on your side.

  1. A lot of people use the old C standards.
  2. Not a lot of people use the new ones.
  3. A lot of useful software is written in C.
  4. Not a lot of useful software is written in any of the other languages you've listed in this conversation, despite the fact that you can hardly call them "new" at this point.

You write software your way, I'll write it mine, and in 10 years we can check our homework. The first 10 years of Rust haven't really given us any results software-wise, but I'm sure with language design powerhouses such as yourself on the case, and just a few more pieces of syntax sugar, you can turn it around.