Most programmers who attack C at the moment are frontend web javascripter kids and rust/functional language snobs, who both never used C and keep repeating the same stuff.

You just have to witness the number of "OMG, you did that in C? Wow!" that are posted every time someone posts a basic C program on a forum. There is a whole crowd that thinks C is some arcane stuff only to be used by by magicians, and if you're not a guru it's gonna kill you.

And then you have the Rust people who chime in and point a list of C problems that are in fact C++ problems.

And then you get the "but anyway modern processors do not execute the code you tell them to execute" guys. Sigh...

It goes every time the same way...