C was the first language I learned in the mid-90s and I still go back to it once and a while when I want raw speed and direct memory access. I know other langua

C was the first language I learned in the mid-90s and I still go back to it once and a while when I want raw speed and direct memory access. I know other languages, sure, but I have yet to find a suitable replacement that lets me do what I want to do on a machine level without getting in the way. Lately I've been doing some of the stuff I would normally do in C in GoLang instead. But it still can't match C in performance. (beats the hell out of Node.js though which is where I do most of my middle-tier / front-end code) It also makes an excellent foot gun for the same reason.