Same here, but it seems kind of justified. C11 looks a lot less ambitious than C++11. Just tweaks outside of the threading stuff, and I suspect most thread users will stick with their existing feature-rich but nonportable libraries.

C++ has always had the feeling of a language that isn't quite finished, so there's a lot of interest in where it's going next. C has the feeling of a language that does exactly what it sets out to do, so it's not really going anywhere.

The article is about C (as in C11 standard) and not about C++ (as in C++11).

Which is exactly what the OP is talking about. There was a lot of buzz about C++11 before it was released, yet there was very little buzz about C11 (or at least, not something the OP noticed).

While the C++ community is gossiping about language features, the C community is busy writing software to get things done. =)

While this is flippant (and amusing) there's an underlying truth here somewhere - I've really not met many C programmers who care about new language features.

C++ folks do seem to care a lot about which features of boost are going to be folded into the language spec and runtimes and what else has been dreamt up for their baby, and how they're going to be able to be more efficient, safer and gosh-darnit just all-round smarter in future.

C programmers mumble something about being busy and already having the tools they need to do everything, though (grudgingly) that VA_ARGS preprocessor extension from '99 was quite handy I suppose...

(I'm a C programmer by trade and history, working on C++ at the moment, just in case I pissed anyone off enough to start a holy war :)

There was a lot of hype about C++0x.

There has not been much about C11.