There are several reasons why people use C, one of them is that the language makes it very explicit what generated code is going to look like. That's one of the

There are several reasons why people use C, one of them is that the language makes it very explicit what generated code is going to look like. That's one of the reasons why Windows kernel is written in C (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff559740(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff..., https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/5/5b5bec17-ea71-4653-9539-204a672f11cf/KMcode.doc https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http://dow...). Libraries like this obfuscate source code.