I find myself doing most of my hobby programming in C. I think it kind of evokes the same thing other hobbyists(like wood working) get by building something from scratch even though there are easier ways to get close to the same end result. There's just something fulfilling about building something with your own two hands as it were and seeing it work.

That being said, I don't think I'd like to do C professionally and I'll happily stick with languages the manage my memory and have all kinds of libraries that give me "free" stuff.