I do wonder what other languages you consider serious apart from C. Off the top of my head I thought C++ and Ada. However, you mention VHDL which I agree with

I do wonder what other languages you consider serious apart from C. Off the top of my head I thought C++ and Ada. However, you mention VHDL which I agree with and somebody else pointed out Javascript which is also a good point. The Javascript example (along with C++) make the point that serious computer languages are not necessarily great languages. I would argue that Rust is not a serious language (at the moment [1]) because its still young, there is no specification and if anything happens to the one implementation it would be a disaster. Despite C being a null pointer minefield, if someone was to sue a developer the argument could be made that it is an industry standard. In the less likely event that a Rust program hurt somebody what are you going to say? [1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/is-there-a-plan-to-get-a-formal-rust-language-specification-at-some-point/21622/8 https://users.rust-lang.org/t/is-there-a-plan-to-get-a-forma...