[apitman]

I disagree. Rust and Zig bring millions of lines of code of dependencies and complexity in their toolchains. We can hope for a relatively simple Zig compiler someday, but probably not Rust. If you care about portability (now and in the future), C is a much better choice.

[Luka12-dev]

Fair point on toolchain complexity and portability, C's minimalism there is genuinely hard to beat. But it's a tradeoff: you're trading toolchain simplicity for the burden of manually ensuring memory safety. Depends on whether your priority is long-term portability or correctness guarantees.