The cost of forsaking C
Ah, C, the love of my life...Want minimal syntactic sugar and a language that's not prone to feature-of-the-week hipsterism? CWant to make tiny binaries for some obscure system with virtually no storage or RAM? C.Want to know where every last cycle goes and explicitly control everything? CWant to trivially import any of the huge array of existing libraries? You guessed it...Want to do something you really shouldn't, and any 'sensible' language might attempt to stop, but is called for right here and now...It's not the safest language, it's not the most expressive, but the syntax is small enough to hold in your head and the body of existing, available work is HUGE. I've been working in C for 15 years and, while I enjoy forays into other languages, it will always be my love.