If C wants to remain competitive against up-and-coming systems languages in the next 5 years (ahem rust), we need something like this. Half of the packages in any linux distro would be straight-C packages in a sane universe.<p>I understand the counterargument that 'C compiles to every architecture' and that's the key to its persistence, but hard-to-use library importing is such a high bar for new developers to learn a system. All the new talent is going to use what's easy.