C is as unsuitable for the current world ad an axe or a hammer or a knife is. All of these are tools which, when wielded without care, are likely to cause a fai

C is as unsuitable for the current world ad an axe or a hammer or a knife is. All of these are tools which, when wielded without care, are likely to cause a fair bit of damage. Then again, all of them are the go-to tools for their specific applications, in the case of C that would be systems programming one level above assembly (C is "structured assembly" and should be treated as such). Good luck using Rust (et al) to program that controller with a scant few bytes of memory, or the firmware for that wifi-controller, or ...