> why people insist on carrying on with C in the face of its glaring issues is beyond me.
Most people and companies cant delay new features and bug fixes for years with the excuse of “we’re rewriting the thing in $currently_trending_language”
That would be more like 30 years since C was truly trendy, and maybe 20 in some areas like embedded software engineering and games development. C was the top of the pile for decades, and I think when you compare it strictly to other languages that were available during that time it becomes clear why (not that is necessarily better than those other languages, but why it was so terrifically popular).
Most people and companies cant delay new features and bug fixes for years with the excuse of “we’re rewriting the thing in $currently_trending_language”