I write C full time and I love it (Varnish Cache). In our team of about 10 full time C engineers, we spend less than an hour a month dealing with things like “memory safety”. When you are writing C at a professional level, your time is spent on things like performance, algorithms, accuracy, hitting requirements, and delivering software. We have numerous safety and fuzzing systems humming in the background checking our work 24/7. The tooling ecosystem (Linux) is top notch.
(If you want to write C full time professionally too, contact me!)
(If you want to write C full time professionally too, contact me!)