It's really easy to remember the semantics of C. At least if you punt a bit on the parts that savage you in the name of UB. You know what libc has in it, give or take, because it's tiny.
Therefore if you walk through the woodland thinking about a program to write in C there is exactly zero interrupt to check docs to see how some dependency might behave. There is no uncertainty over what it can do, or what things will cost you writing another language to do reasonably.
Further, when you come to write it, there's friction when you think "oh, I want a trie here", but that's of a very different nature to "my python dependency segfaults sometimes".
It's probably not a path to maximum output. From the programming is basically a computer game perspective it has a lot going for it.
Lua is basically the same. An underappreciated feature of a language is never, ever having to look up the docs to know how to express your idea.
Therefore if you walk through the woodland thinking about a program to write in C there is exactly zero interrupt to check docs to see how some dependency might behave. There is no uncertainty over what it can do, or what things will cost you writing another language to do reasonably.
Further, when you come to write it, there's friction when you think "oh, I want a trie here", but that's of a very different nature to "my python dependency segfaults sometimes".
It's probably not a path to maximum output. From the programming is basically a computer game perspective it has a lot going for it.
Lua is basically the same. An underappreciated feature of a language is never, ever having to look up the docs to know how to express your idea.