I use C++11 and it's awesome. It's expressive like python but still maintains strict type safety. I built a (still young) curl wrapper using C++11: https://github.com/whoshuu/cpr
Edit: Misread the parent posts and thought they were referring to C++11. Today I learned C11 is a separate standard.
Too bad proprietary projects can't link against it. A loss for us all.
Seriously? GPL stuff can be used with any internal stuff, and almost any Free stuff. Isn't that enough? Where is the loss exactly?
Edit: okay, that wasn't the author's intention, and the consistency argument is a good one (least astonishment and all that). Still, the general argument holds.
Edit: Misread the parent posts and thought they were referring to C++11. Today I learned C11 is a separate standard.