> I love C.

You and me both. I'm also a polygot but I originally started on interpreted languages like PHP and Python. I then learned some C, which was quite frustrating before I learned how to reason about memory ownership and hold myself to some idioms. Oh and Valgrind.

I then rewrote a bunch of projects in Rust and while it lead to correct and working software, it didn't spark the joy that C did for me. I don't exactly know why and at times I almost feel ashamed to mention this. I do hope there's a future where there's a version of C with some more substantial changes/improvements though, perhaps taking a lesson or two from Rust or Zig (eg string type w/ length).