The thing I find interesting about C is that everything and anything done in other languages can be done in C; after all, how does that language implement featu

The thing I find interesting about C is that everything and anything done in other languages can be done in C; after all, how does that language implement feature X? In some low level manner, and that is where C shines. C is not just the language, it is the entire ecosystem of all available source code written in C - compilers, browsers, you name it, it is there. Working in C is as much research and integration as one wants, with the results being any flavor of programming style you want - with all the foundation bits under your complete control. Plus the community of pure C developers is people that have been working in it for decades, with more practical programming wisdom than you'll find in shops with teams of high level developers releasing modern applications. The C teams release them too, but theirs is exponentially higher performance in exponentially smaller foot prints. Lots of software shops appear to be more into empire creation than quality software, but that's a result of decades of software industry propaganda too.