[Kharacternyk]

I'm fascinated by C. I agree that using almost anything else automatically eliminates entire classes of bugs and vulnerabilities, but it's so much _fun_ to be close to the machine and avoid those bugs and vulnerabilities myself. Judging by the fact that even some greenfield projects are still written in C, I'm not alone.

[logicprog]

I am as much of a rust shill as you'll ever meet, but I agree that there is something beautiful and alluring and simple and engaging about C that few other languages match. It's basically an advanced macro assembler for an abstract machine, so there's all of the allure of using 6502 or 68000 assembly language but with none of the portability problems, and a vast ecosystem of libraries and amazing books to back it up.

[Kharacternyk]

I've enjoyed writing a few projects in x86-64 assembly as well, for what it's worth. Even though I'm sure that any C compiler would generate better assembly than my handwritten one. Flat assembler is great, by the way.