I agree there's a teaching problem happening somewhere. I'm not sure I blame CS-education since I'd wager that most developers don't have a formal CS background

I agree there's a teaching problem happening somewhere. I'm not sure I blame CS-education since I'd wager that most developers don't have a formal CS background. I too regularly however come across people who believe some or all of the following: - "Everything is ultimately just C" - "All other languages just compile to C, so you should use it to be fast" - "C is faster because it's closer to bare metal" - "C is fast because it doesn't need to be interpreted unlike all other languages" The special elevated position of C, being some kind of "ground truth" of computers is bizarre. It leads to all kinds of false-optimizations in practitioners in other languages out of some kind of misplaced confidence in the speed of C relative to all other languages. The idea that C is "naturally faster" due to being some kind of representation of a computer that no other language could achieve is a hard myth to shake.