C has kind of become the evident defacto standard. There isn't anything we can really do to change that. It just did what it was meant to do very well with all

C has kind of become the evident defacto standard. There isn't anything we can really do to change that. It just did what it was meant to do very well with all of the flashy bells and whistles removed. The underlying instructions generated by the compilers are simple to follow. Reasoning about what will be generated is an easy enough task (so long as optimization is turned off).