Because C can run on almost everything? For example, take Doom and the whole "Can it run Doom?" meme
How many architectures run Flatpak that don't have a compiler for any safer systems language? I don't think you run Flatpak on weird embedded chips, but maybe I'm mistaken.
Except for some weird architectures, where C is supported, C++ is as well.
And if either GCC or clang are supported, they support safer languages than C and C++ on their standard collection of frontends.