The parent was talking about "nostalgia" and "replacing C" so I assumed they were talking about more recent languages like Rust, C++, D, Go, Zig and all these n

The parent was talking about "nostalgia" and "replacing C" so I assumed they were talking about more recent languages like Rust, C++, D, Go, Zig and all these newer system languages. I agree that if we're talking about why C took over in the first place it's a different discussion.