It’s very interesting you find my comment as prescriptive when I’m merely pointing out that C has historically been a good tool. In this person’s opinion, it sounds silly when people try to tear it down, often with some agenda. I mentioned Rust because it often seems to come from a very passionate camp there (again, cool! nothing wrong with that). As I said, programming languages are tools, some tools are good for one job and not another, and prescriptivist talk about such things I immediately tune out and cannot take very seriously.

Luckily my opinion doesn’t matter and can be ignored.