I also like that C forces me to do stuff myself I never liked that you have to choose between this and C++ though. C could use some automation, but that's C++

I also like that C forces me to do stuff myself I never liked that you have to choose between this and C++ though. C could use some automation, but that's C++ in "C with classes" mode. The sad thing is, you can't convince other people to use this mode, so all you have is either raw C interfaces which you have to wrap yourself, or C++ interfaces which require galaxy brain to fully grasp. I remember growing really tired of "add member - add initializer - add finalizer - sweep and recheck finalizers" loop. Or calculating lifetime orders in your mind. If you ask which single word my mind associates with C, it will be "routine". C++ would be amazing if its culture wasn't so obsessed with needless complexity. We had a local joke back then: every C++ programmer writes heaps of C++ code to pretend that the final page of code is not C++.