C probably was bloated then. But today it’s the backbone of everything, whereas python will never be that, at least on hardware at the levels we can foreseeable

C probably was bloated then. But today it’s the backbone of everything, whereas python will never be that, at least on hardware at the levels we can foreseeable build. Languages like C brought a massive benefit to accessibility. Devolving “software is slow” to “yeah but C vs assembly” is such a ridiculous crutch argument. Assembly is not remotely approachable to the majority of programmers. C, rust, zig, c++, Java, C# are all approachable languages that are fast and have great fast libraries and frameworks to work with. All I can see in the “I can finish the see sharp program faster” argument is that “python vs c++.jpeg” from the 2000’s where half the python was importing libraries, but they wrote the C++ from scratch, and everyone who knew nothing about C++ moved this image around like it was some hilarious joke of C++.