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C isn't really the best language for anything anymore. Maybe as a compilation target for other languages.

The only thing C is interesting for at this point is as a target for a compiler you can implement over a weekend.

I quite frankly disagree. From personal experience I don't think there's any mainstream programming language that in itself teaches you anything much about emulating systems like the Game Boy or NES - in fact, I'd go so far as to say that none of them even at least yield elegant and accurate implementations.

People write "production-grade" emulators in C because it's fast, not because it's uniquely suited to the domain as a language.

Only from a UNIX culture mindset.

As opposed to what?

Everyone else that understands C is not the first systems language to ever exist since FORTRAN in 1958, nor it will be around forever outside anything tied to UNIX/POSIX.

C isn't even a systems language lol, it's too delicate to rely on for systems.

UNIX authors saw it otherwise thought, as they created it for UNIX System V rewrite.