It’s truly the only low-level language that could actually be used for systems programming.
C#, Java? Managed code with JITs, not supported on a kernel level no-way no-how. Ditto for Python, PHP, JavaScript, and other high-level languages without pointers and all that jazz.
Go would be close… but it requires bundling a bunch of libraries in with each binary and wasn’t designed for low-level development. Again unsuitable.
C++? Linus Torvalds and the kernel developers hate it for being unnecessarily complicated and only making things harder to maintain while bringing little to the table at this point (they’ve made it this far without classes, and C++ doesn’t bring anything new like memory safety).
C#, Java? Managed code with JITs, not supported on a kernel level no-way no-how. Ditto for Python, PHP, JavaScript, and other high-level languages without pointers and all that jazz.
Go would be close… but it requires bundling a bunch of libraries in with each binary and wasn’t designed for low-level development. Again unsuitable.
C++? Linus Torvalds and the kernel developers hate it for being unnecessarily complicated and only making things harder to maintain while bringing little to the table at this point (they’ve made it this far without classes, and C++ doesn’t bring anything new like memory safety).