[kirillbobyrev]

I love Rust, but being the most favorite language and being an essential language to know in some sense (read, write, understand) are two different things.

C is primitive and painful to program in for the most part. However, it's at the core of plenty of important things, so having enough knowledge to get around it is crucial.

C is essentially a portable assembler and it's great for a number of tasks. Rust is a general-purpose programming language and it has a vastly different domain of application. Surely, they overlap, in some domains Rust is overtaking C (where C was used more out of necessity/lack of alternatives rather than consciousness). The point is, though, is that there is a domain (not necessarily very big, but very important) where C will very likely stay for a very very long time. At the same time, Rust is great, but not much critical software is written in Rust (yet). It's likely that there will be such software in the future, but I think the consensus is that nobody knows for sure.