<i>we focus on actual mastery of simpler languages like C</i><p>We&#x27;ve had 44 years for people to master the &quot;simplicity&quot; of C. Turns out, writing C is simple but writing safe, reliable C borders on the impossible even for the most masterful masters who ever mastered their mastery of the language. Better return on investment would be to work on killing C with something that doesn&#x27;t have C&#x27;s problems.