I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 2025.
I have never seen a language with a better ffi into C than C.
I have never seen a language with a better ffi into C than C.
What massive, maintained set is that? Base Unix is tiny, and any serious programming ecosystem has good alternatives for all of it.