I didn't advocate that anyone ship production code written in C. I advocated that people write programs in C and run them to see how fast executables can start

I didn't advocate that anyone ship production code written in C. I advocated that people write programs in C and run them to see how fast executables can startup and run. (Dart isn't great for that because while its runtime performance is pretty fantastic, it does still take a hit on startup because it's a VM with a fairly large core library and runtime system.)