C89 Memes

C programmers defending their language like it's a holy crusade. On one side, you've got the "enlightened" C developers praising their blessed C26 standard, their glorious defer , their great _Generic , the noble true/false keywords (only took 50 years!), and their heroic nullptr . On the other side? The "barbarous" C89 heathens with their wicked goto , primitive void* , backward 1/0 for booleans, and brutish NULL . It's the eternal civil war within the C community. Modern C devs act like they're using a completely different language because they finally got basic features that literally every other language has had since the Stone Age. Meanwhile, the old guard is still writing typedef struct everywhere and using goto cleanup; without shame. Fun fact: C26 is the first standard to add defer , which is basically C admitting that Golang and Zig were onto something. Better late than never, I guess.