I've always felt that C is unfairly maligned. Yes, it's very low level, it's meant to be. Yes, it lets you shoot yourself in the foot, but what language doesn't?
Most of the problems with C are really issues with the standard library, the Unix (now Posix) interfaces, and the string type.
None of these are actually part of C, but are part of how C is normally used. So those problems can be avoided, and use C for what it's good at.
Then they picked up a JS or Python class, were told high-level languages are easy and viola! they started to understand programming.
That's the reason people are spiteful of it. They had a terrible learning experience right out the gate.
Usually folks attach a debugger to capture a stack trace. Usually the debugger uses debug info to determine where the program is, and it's stack trace. Or it can walk frame pointers. Depends on if either are even used, which is a compile time decision.
Good lord.
In higher level languages, you can't shoot yourself in the foot nearly as easily in such a way as to trivially create a correctness problem and security vulnerability (like a buffer under/overflow). Languages like Java and C# make it pretty difficult to shoot yourself in the foot this way (though you still can in other ways, like with incorrect concurrency). Rust makes it a lot harder to shoot yourself in the foot across the board, especially on accident (i.e., without being aware that you're something dangerous and low-level, viz. `unsafe`).
Jokes aside though, I doubt that no programmers are immersed in the computer while they code. It totally is a different world, just implemented inside this one.
Isn’t it a beauty of lower level languages that creating higher level abstractions provides more value?
edit: typo