I think in a lot of cases it’s the only tool for the job. I have a hunch that a significant majority of the machine instructions executed in a given second glob

I think in a lot of cases it’s the only tool for the job. I have a hunch that a significant majority of the machine instructions executed in a given second globally came from C source code, and a large portion of that is running on something “weird”. It’s somewhat funny, “commonly portable” C is portable across the most uncommon C execution environments.