But what about when you are adding features or fixing bugs in the gigantic base of code written in C? Or what if you consider C your lingua-franca and find it

But what about when you are adding features or fixing bugs in the gigantic base of code written in C? Or what if you consider C your lingua-franca and find it no less difficult to write a throw away app in C over other languages. Or if you have to interface very closely to your operating system without writing hairy wrapperes. Or, or, or ...