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The best language... to do what? ;-)

To do anything, if you want to do that thing on a processor with Von Neumann architecture and guarantee efficient memory or CPU usage.

Admittedly, this comes with a significant cost of development time.

"guarantee efficient memory or CPU usage"

C does not guarantee either in sufficiently complex programs. Here is a classic counterexample:

The best language for micro-controller programming, for one.