Stallman created the C menace

C compilers used to cost a lot of money and then the FSF made one and gave it away for free.

Because of GCC, a C compiler is as readily available as an assembler, which lets C spread everywhere.

Without GCC, people would focus more on making languages that don't need C because they wouldn't want to rely on a C compiler because they already have their own compiler.

theres been awesome memory safe languages around for years and years

but suddenly everyone is shilling rust as 'the' mem safe language