Linus may be fine with C, but I do find that using C for larger projects is cumbersome for its lack of quality-of-life features. Making ADTs with C is a pain,

Linus may be fine with C, but I do find that using C for larger projects is cumbersome for its lack of quality-of-life features. Making ADTs with C is a pain, because you can't define a type and keep creating object instances of it. Lack of namespaces makes naming things convoluted. Exception handling is non-existent. The type system is a joke, C functions happily take arguments of wrong type at compile time and then segfault at run time. Lack of array bounds checking places greater demands on the programmer. Too much abuse of the bare bones pre-processor macros. Multidimensional arrays are very complex to use.