A better title is "C isn't just a progamming language anymore" I know the purpose of the article is to shit on C, but the fact that it is the lingua franca _de

A better title is "C isn't just a progamming language anymore" I know the purpose of the article is to shit on C, but the fact that it is the lingua franca _despite_ of it's shortcomings, is more than anything a testament to the versatility of the language, and a proof that it somehow ended up the right abstraction distance between javascript and microcode.. Nobody forbids you from making a language that does not speak C, and write a compiler that generates machine-code that has nothing in common with what would have come out of C source, and an OS that natively support whatever conventions that language has. It's not like hardware requires you to write C for it..