Ok, I think since none of his reasons include I am doing system programming I will debunk Reliability: C is not the only language with a reliable ecosystem,

Ok, I think since none of his reasons include I am doing system programming I will debunk Reliability: C is not the only language with a reliable ecosystem, and what should matter most is the reliability of the program, not the tools made to create the program, so in this regard, I think Rust, OCaml, C#, Java are all as reliable, and I would argue it is easier to write more predictable or reliable programs in them Performance: Yes sure C wins almost every performance benchmark, but Rust is very Fast and Ocaml is also very fast so unless you are working on system programming stuff, I think you have better options that are more reliable and predictable Simplicity: Here I would like to contrast simplicity of the tool vs simplicity of the product, complexity does not go away, complexity is abstracted, simple tool = complex product or process, complex tools on the other hand may allow you to create simpler tools and processes, if you use simple tools you will transfer complexity to your products, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing