C question

is a byte with all zeros equivalent to the integer value (signed or unsigned) zero, in terms of portability?

Such that, is memset(&i, 0, sizeof(int)); equivalent to i = 0;?

>>24

C is the worse replacement for other languages. Universities were ``forced to'' replace better languages with C in the late 80s and early 90s.

C was replaced with the likes of Python and Java in Universities to create hoards of code monkeys for companies.
It has NOTHING to do with the importance of the language.