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It’s a very simple and explicit language that is easy to write high performance code with and can be used as high level, portable assembly which integrates easily with actual assembly due to a simple and stable ABI. It compiles extremely quickly, its tooling is mature and robust, and you can write it for any platform and do basically everything with it because it is a lingua franca where almost everything has a native API that uses the C ABI.

C’s type system is lacking, I wish it was more strict, and sometimes I wish it had some features from C++ (operator overloading for mathematical types, templates for generic programming) and features of other languages (multiple return values especially), but overall I’m okay with its limitations and have become used to working around them. Sometimes I compile C code with a C++ compiler just to take advantage of stricter typing, templates, etc. but for a lot of projects this isn’t a necessity.