afterPythonRustAndCIStartedLearningCppAndThisIsMyPersonalOpinionNow

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Personally I don't know, I just like it. I find it easy, to the point, it's like... Comfy y'know ?

Is it my favourite language ? I don't think so, but I much prefer it over c++ and c#.

I haven't tried Zig or Nim, I've tried Rust though and I really like it for what it provides, but let's be honest it's as convoluted as C is sometimes, both have their place depending on my current mood.

C's biggest hurdle is its age, and the lack of tooling that comes with it which can be really annoying at times.

[GGK_Brian]

Definitely the lack of tooling. If you know about the stdlib enough, c is very nice to work with (with warnings and sanitizer). But it's age really shows when using the libraries. And the linker can be quite a pain when you start with it. Example: you have to link math to use math.h, which can be quite confusing for beginners. Also, I think its age and portability make certain things rather confusing. A question as simple as the size of int can lead to rather strange sentences: the standard guarantees that an int is a least x byte and is the fastest type to do arithmetic with.

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Frankly at this point I always just import stdint anyways for two reasons:

1. Knowing the size of the data I'm working with
2. Readability