My coworkers think I'm insane, but I do my side projects in C because I find it so much more relaxing and satisfying than what I do at work (Angular and C#). They can't understand why I find C relaxing because they find it terrifying. I just find it so much simpler to work with functions, structs and pointers rather than abstraction chains ten layers deep.
Granted, I'm using it on homemade game engines, which are very amenable to the simple type of code C allows you to write. I wouldn't want to write an HTTP server in it. But for what I build, I find using C to be the equivalent of woodworking, compared to the Ikea furniture I put together at work.
Granted, I'm using it on homemade game engines, which are very amenable to the simple type of code C allows you to write. I wouldn't want to write an HTTP server in it. But for what I build, I find using C to be the equivalent of woodworking, compared to the Ikea furniture I put together at work.