Increasing memory capacity is not a sound argument that most people no longer need to write C. Most people don't write C because it's easier to abstract away th

Increasing memory capacity is not a sound argument that most people no longer need to write C. Most people don't write C because it's easier to abstract away the knobs C provides for faster productivity, not because we have so much hardware we don't need to care. But it sounds like you're saying most people don't need to write in C because they don't need to be efficient, which is silly. I despise running non-native desktop applications on a workstation with 128GB RAM because the developers often think it doesn't matter how much memory they use if there's a lot of it. That's frustrating and lazy, and it means I'm paying for their time savings with my hardware resources. "Unused memory is wasted memory!" they say, except I would happily use as much memory as possible, but the nth Electron app prevents me from running something else. C and its derivatives have disappeared from web applications (particularly the frontend), but it's painful to forgo them for desktop and systems applications.