> Despite the best efforts of developers of rival programming languages This is a flippant statement. It could be argued C++ falls into this category, but othe

> Despite the best efforts of developers of rival programming languages This is a flippant statement. It could be argued C++ falls into this category, but others are so new that they just haven't had the time to grow into the communities that would benefit from them. > C’s advantages have preserved it as an indispensable systems and applications programming language. But what about the disadvantages? I love C, I will always have fond memories of using it to do mind-bending things, but given the choice of using safe languages vs. an unsafe one at this point in time is a mistake. Where there is an option to use a safe language instead of C, that option should always be chosen. It could potentially save lives depending on where it's deployed; it will definitely save money in the long term with fewer bugs. C is not the only low cost abstraction and peak performance language available out there anymore.