You probably work with ultra high level stuff, which is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to programming. More than half of what is written around comes from

You probably work with ultra high level stuff, which is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to programming. More than half of what is written around comes from drivers, embedded, engines, robots, controllers and kernel. And for those, you have nowhere to run but to use C down to its bottom. You might use some C++ to enforce some abstraction, iterate in a more fashionable way, but in the end, it's just C