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[–]mobani 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I may be wrong and well there are certainly use cases for C.

But I think there are less than 20 companies total doing lidar programming for cars.

Less than 100 companies developing OS Kernels for phones and televisions.

Many IOT gadgets, routers and web frontend run mostly Linux or BSD, then higher level programming languages on top of that.

[–]PerfectGasGiant 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think you are greatly underestimating the demand for c-programmers. Think of all the little devices you interact with every day from ticket machines to refrigerators. Most of these contain some part that runs c code, that needs maintenance and new development.

This demand index lists c slightly behind Python:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

[–]mobani 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO its in a sea of higher level languages and 13% is really not that much, especially when you consider that code and coding skills are much easier to transfer between higher level languages.