> C still is, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, the lingua franca, the least common denominator. In the context of platform ABIs, sure. The w

> C still is, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, the lingua franca, the least common denominator. In the context of platform ABIs, sure. The widespread stabilization and ossification of C ABIs is a boon for the rest of the ecosystem but it's entirely at the expense of the C language/stdlib. Hence the performance advantage of projects like fmtlib. Notwithstanding its ubiquity C is in many ways "The Sick Man of Asia". Every major C compiler is written in C++ with tooling heading the same way. The dominance of C++ in the heterogeneous space has accelerated this trend and spread it to many HPC libraries. Even foundational bits such as Microsoft's UCRT or llvm-libc are written in C++. On the current trajectory C will become the next Fortran, i.e. a widely used language which is nonetheless unable to support itself.