Quoting Linus

C is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Ouch.