I've been finding it perfectly suitable for this and other projects. Have you updated your point of view after recently attempting to write and profile a non trivial program?
I have a toddler demanding 99% of my free time so I apologize in advance for the LLM shortcut but this looks correct based on my experience
Good counterpoints. I did investigate it just a few months ago but then found criticisms about its translation of V to C being quite subpar, but eh