This article is a charmingly strange look at the popularity of programming languages written - or perhaps heavily edited - by someone who is clearly an outsider to the field.

Well:

> Another noteworthy cause of C’s weakening > is its lack of a corporate sponsor

A big plus for me, how are the java API law suits going ?

> Over the years, C developers have shepherded C on > a path to improved performance but neglected to > add new features

what new features, you mean you want to replace some function calls with single built in statements ?

Upvote just for this masterpiece:

> With the advent of the Internet of Things and chatbot technology, C is slowly becoming more obsolete.

On the contrary, "C is so common today that most programs have C compilers to run C-coded files"