I'm a hacker-news reader and I use C on a daily basis. Seems pretty friendly to me. Every language has a problem that it is good at solving, and some languages

I'm a hacker-news reader and I use C on a daily basis. Seems pretty friendly to me. Every language has a problem that it is good at solving, and some languages express the underlying idea more clearly than others. In this case, the author has done a bang-up job picking a common, everyday language to solve the problem.