Arguably, it's not the prevalence of the language per se that's the problem: it's that the C function call interface has become the de-facto interop language fo

Arguably, it's not the prevalence of the language per se that's the problem: it's that the C function call interface has become the de-facto interop language for all shared libraries, which also means that every other language (whether it's Ada, Pascal, Rust, Python, Ocaml or Haskell) has to support the dinosaur-age ideas or exist only in its own niche.