there's some definition of 'portability' or 'write once, run anywhere' where C99 or even C11 feels like the most reliable thing out there -- with the Web you don't have access to basic Unix capabilities like files or network sockets, and with Python/Ruby/Node the interpreter is this huge complicated thing that can have a weird version or fail in 50 different ways
also a cultural thing where if you have a C project, it probably has a pretty shallow dependency tree
@omar So long as you don’t need graphics…