Comment by benj111

I don't think C is hostile. C has UB for good reason. The problem is UB has been hijacked by the compiler writers for performance gains.

Personally I like C because you should have a good idea of what it's going to do. Other languages feel like a black box, and I start having to fight them far too often. But I say that as a hacker of low level stuff, not as someone who's paid and working on higher level stuff, so that is probably a niche view.