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In reading my old posts, I found this as my .signature in 1986, I know
people will argue with it but I still agree, I get that there is Rust
and Go and whatever.  The programmers that I hang with still like C.

"If you are undertaking anything substantial, C is the only reasonable
 choice of programming language"  --  Brian W. Kerninghan