My impression is that it fills the same niche as C: simple, manual (memory management), low overhead. I’m not qualified to contrast it with C, but I think it h

My impression is that it fills the same niche as C: simple, manual (memory management), low overhead. I’m not qualified to contrast it with C, but I think it has fewer footguns, a build system, and probably a better standard library. The tooling is great (similar to Go).