Depression can be bad, too. Maybe it can lead to cancer, and it undisputedly causes deaths. Other languages make me depressive and steal my focus. They make me

Depression can be bad, too. Maybe it can lead to cancer, and it undisputedly causes deaths. Other languages make me depressive and steal my focus. They make me go to great lengths trying to get the simplest things done. In C, it's like memset(p, 0, sizeof *p), done. Other languages make it such that I always code on 3 layers of abstraction to not have to do the "hard" task, but now I don't know the implementation of those layers. They make it such that I'm constantly torn to come up with an even more clever thing to say the same things, with even more abstractions and moving parts. They pull so much attention to themselves, distracting from the task that I want get done. With C, this is not the case. Maybe with a different personality, I could be similarly or even more productive in Rust, ignoring all the kitsch in its ecosystem. But I've started reading Rust projects dozens of times and have always turned away. They always use one more abstraction than I can be arsed to look up, always hide the most interesting and motivating parts behind a crate dependency. This is not the case with C, where it is easy to find good (enough) code that is honest and direct, and rewarding. I know that C is not perfect. We're having an open relationship, and I don't have any attachments (besides knowing it well) that prevent me from jumping ship when I find a better one.