C because [1], but Javascript is also being used in that space, Lua is small and beautiful, Python is everywhere, Forth can be implemented in 42 bytes of Forth.

C because [1], but Javascript is also being used in that space, Lua is small and beautiful, Python is everywhere, Forth can be implemented in 42 bytes of Forth... [1] "Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware understands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis."