> I think there are still much better things to do and much more worthwhile efforts to spend our energy on that could actually improve the project and bring it forward.
> Like improving the test suite, increasing test coverage, making sure more code is exercised by the fuzzers.
I wonder if using a more recent version of C might draw in more developers willing to contribute (in a similar vein to Linux kernel introducing Rust).
It seems unlikely. If you're capable of & interested in hacking on something like curl, having to put your variable declarations at the top of the block probably isn't going to be a deal-killer for you.
> Like improving the test suite, increasing test coverage, making sure more code is exercised by the fuzzers.
I wonder if using a more recent version of C might draw in more developers willing to contribute (in a similar vein to Linux kernel introducing Rust).