[trealira]

C is not the smallest or simplest language, but it's pretty small and simple. What's hard is writing large software in it (compared to other languages). It doesn't take that long to learn it, nor is it very difficult to learn, and there's no reason not to learn it, so you may as well go for it.

[rspivak]

Basically, instead of asking 'why?', this flips it to 'why not?'. Good point.