English is as much an eternal Lingua Franca for human-readable communications as C is for low-level high-performance programming: meaning that it isn't one at a

English is as much an eternal Lingua Franca for human-readable communications as C is for low-level high-performance programming: meaning that it isn't one at all. Both can be unseated with some effort. C is already being slowly unseated by Rust, and there are more competitors like Zig on the way. English may or may not be unseated by Mandarin, given that American hegemony is waning, and (unfortunately) Chinese dominance on the global stage is rising.