Yes. - Languages like Rust will gain more mindshare over the next decade, and be used in more and more new projects, but there are billions of lines of existin

Yes. - Languages like Rust will gain more mindshare over the next decade, and be used in more and more new projects, but there are billions of lines of existing code in C, and those aren't going away. - Hardware architects, for better or worse, largely think about software in terms of [a somewhat dated and idealized mental model of] C. So if you want to be able to converse with architects (which anyone doing systems programming should want to do), you need to have some basic fluency with C.