Yes. I probably drifted too much from C (which this thread is about) in my head and was just thinking about "general" software development (whatever that means.

Yes. I probably drifted too much from C (which this thread is about) in my head and was just thinking about "general" software development (whatever that means.. : D) I agree if you want to write software targeting GNU/Linux or embedded systems (which are more or less the only remaining cases when you'd want to use C) trying to do that on Windows or macOS probably won't be a great experience (and nobody targeting either would have any reason to use it unless they are into retro-computing or something like that). If you only want to "learn" it for purely educational reasons, just to get a better understanding of some lower level concepts/problems (i.e. the only reason why someone would/should ever want to use an iPad) it doesn't matter that much.