also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it “Si” and that my professor was making a joke about C… god damn it
this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol
You’ve obviously never looked at benchmarks because you’re one or two orders of magnitude off.
The same reason you don’t use assembly is the reason many use Payton instead of C.
As someone who was trained in C and did most of my programming in it, yes it does everything you need but it’s a major pain in the ass doing it well. It’s slow to get things done and you need decades to get competent at it. Python allows you to get up and running a lot faster.
As cpu and ram are cheap compared to the days when C was a necessity, most programmers have made the decision that getting things going fast and easy was worth the trade off. The market has spoken. There is still a place for C or Rust, but there’s also a place for Python and other interpreted languages. You can make good programs in both but it’s a lot easier to make a garbage program in C.
I’ve used at least 20 computer OS’ dating back to the ‘70s, and despite all your fearmongering, computers keep getting cheaper and easier to use, and for the most part, faster. I’ve got old Macs and PC’s and Linux boxes laying around from 20-30 years ago, and trust me, they aren’t faster or easier to use. There were some good OS’ like AmigaOS or windowing systems like FVWM back in the day that were surprisingly responsive for the time, but Windows and MacOS were all pretty garbage until about windows 7 and Mac OS X. And they costed $4000+ in today’s dollars. You can get laptops these days for $150.