C has to be one of the most popular languages on the planet. Or at least it used to be. There has been a downward trend in the popularity of the C language over the course of the past decade or two.

One of the main reasons for that is the presence of languages like Python or Java. C’s problem is that it is very hard for humans to read and understand, especially when we compare it to something like Python, which is famous for the English-Like syntax which it has. Not only that, languages like Java and Python do most of the heavy lifting for us, like memory management whereas, you would have to implement these specifically on languages like C/C++.

It is very saddening to see developers abandoning the first language they begin their journey with for a much easier alternative. C at the time could indeed prove to be very handful. However, there is still no match for the speed at which a C program compiles and runs.

Python seems like a sloth when we compare the run and compile times. Also, most of the libraries available for languages like Python use some sort of wrapper of C or C++ to ensure that the code runs faster and does what it is intended to do.

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