To me, C is like PHP (ignoring for a moment that PHP was written in C). You can document its shortcomings, its dangers and all the headache-inducing choices.

To me, C is like PHP (ignoring for a moment that PHP was written in C). You can document its shortcomings, its dangers and all the headache-inducing choices. But while you're doing that, people all over the world are building wonderful and terrible things with it. So you've moving on to Go or Rust? Great! Good choices! But remember that there are people who may disagree and be wrong and also do something interesting with that wrongness.