> Github by itself is not enough; there are orders of magnitude more code outside of it and hence your assumption is wrong. Also most C/C++ folks prefer to keep code local (proprietary and personal reasons) and hence are not sampled.

"you're wrong man, C totally has a bunch of code being used thats private, I swear". you could say that about every single other language. only thing that matter is what can be measured. C is dead man, you are just in denial. its an old crap language that hasn't been relevant in at least a decade. if you need some evidence, just look to the fact that after decades it still doesn't have a package manager, so many people laughably just vendor code when working with C projects.