Nothing makes it appealing or faster than C in particular. It's the stubbornness of the old guard of physics professors (and applied math, etc) who contributed

Nothing makes it appealing or faster than C in particular. It's the stubbornness of the old guard of physics professors (and applied math, etc) who contributed to mountains of (now legacy) fortran code in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and who's funerals haven't occurred yet [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle