> C itself is a pretty poor language at covering what it actually covers. C's job is to be the first thing ported to a new architecture, allow you to bootstrap

> C itself is a pretty poor language at covering what it actually covers. C's job is to be the first thing ported to a new architecture, allow you to bootstrap a system, and build on top of it (last 2 steps optional if you're working on some sort of embedded system). And, frankly, it's reasonably good at that. Writing a simple C compiler is trivial compared to something like rust.