What about C? Is there something to be said for the proximity of the language to the machine language? Maybe that sounds like a dumb question because I am a be

What about C? Is there something to be said for the proximity of the language to the machine language? Maybe that sounds like a dumb question because I am a beginner at coding, so I apologize, but it's something I've recently gotten into via an interest in microcontrollers. A low(er)-level language like C seems to be pretty universally sound, running on just about anything, and seems to have not changed much in a long, long time. But when I was dabbling in both Python and Ruby (on Rails) and .NET framework, I noticed what you mean, as I scooped up some old projects on github thinking I'd add to them and realize that it would be a chore to get them updated.