There are a few reasons: The Lindy effect. You can run C code from anywhere. There are places where it is much easier and better to run C code than

There are a few reasons: The Lindy effect. You can run C code from anywhere. There are places where it is much easier and better to run C code than anything else. All of these are related to how long C has been around. I think that's also the reason why we use JavaScript extensively.