Isn't C the fastest, most energy efficient and has a very small code footprint? see : https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electric

Isn't C the fastest, most energy efficient and has a very small code footprint? see : https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/ https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-l... You'd think that something like a text search would benefit from being as fast as possible. Aren't most of the other languages written in C because it is fast? (Except for Rust, of course, which now appears to be a very reasonable alternative ).