To be a bit pedantic, those options aren't mutually exclusive. An appealing property of C is that it's easy to target almost any device (often making it the bes

To be a bit pedantic, those options aren't mutually exclusive. An appealing property of C is that it's easy to target almost any device (often making it the best or only option). So it's possible to like C because you like (and need) something you can compile in lots of different places.