[insidious]

My absolute favorite part of C is it's simplicity. The whole language fits into the size of a book you'd expect a small travelers translation book to be.

You have a few basic types, structures, keywords, etc. Yet the language allows so much flexibility. Part of the reason it's been so popular and retained that popularity over the years.

In all these other languages you have BS like interfaces, abstract classes, crazy data structures, and fuckall. All those really do is expand on C. Learning C gives you new insight into all that BS and why they were created in the first place.