To say a better C means it is clearly influenced by C, not that it was intended to replace C in all contexts, but that it's a compiled language in the C tradition which extends C idioms/syntax, adds a good standard library, better strings etc without losing the simplicity which made C attractive.

Just as C++ intended to improve C but went in a very different direction and added a lot more. Crucially, it doesn't add inheritance as C++/Java did, which I think is an interesting choice which I find quite pleasing and avoids a lot of horrible architectural decisions and vast inheritance trees.

There are certainly lots of bits I would change having used it a while, but I find it quite useful to work in and far more like C than say Java, Ruby or Python which it has supplanted more than usage of actual C. Not sure one of the goals was to supplant C usage and that was not at all what I meant to imply.