It doesn't change the fact C is equally a design by committee language with all the negativity it entails.
In fact, WG14 very clearly has acted against Dennis when he submitted papers that could have improved C's safer.
Maybe his fat pointers proposal was not good enough, but apparently is wasn't something worth improving upon either.
C authors indeed moved on, first with Alef (which granted had a few design issues), Limbo and finally Go, as C as being driven by WG14 was no longer their thing, C on Plan 9 isn't even C89 compliant.
In fact, WG14 very clearly has acted against Dennis when he submitted papers that could have improved C's safer.
Maybe his fat pointers proposal was not good enough, but apparently is wasn't something worth improving upon either.
C authors indeed moved on, first with Alef (which granted had a few design issues), Limbo and finally Go, as C as being driven by WG14 was no longer their thing, C on Plan 9 isn't even C89 compliant.