C is lower level than almost every other language out there. Compiler technology being what it is, that also makes it more efficient at almost everything than every other (non-assembler) language ...

Hi folks - I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code. This is a ...

This is because developers can't catch sockets programming errors as they occur -- the traditional tools and techniques introduce too much accidental complexity.