By “reinvent everything,” I believe you mean to say that you have to make your own linked-lists to have adjustable strings, and you have to create structs with function pointers to have objects…
The simplicity is either in the language and tooling around the language, or it is in the code you read and write in that language. C chose to be simple in the language itself and not in the code.
The single greatest praise that I will give to C is that the entirety of the language can be held in the mind of the programmer using it, with zero need for reference. This is impossible in most other languages.
The simplicity is either in the language and tooling around the language, or it is in the code you read and write in that language. C chose to be simple in the language itself and not in the code.
The single greatest praise that I will give to C is that the entirety of the language can be held in the mind of the programmer using it, with zero need for reference. This is impossible in most other languages.