HN has a pretty broad audience and a pretty big chunk of it doesn't know $language. These types of beginner posts for $language pop up from time to time. It's nothing to worry about.
$language in this case is C, the lingua franca of computing.
It is almost always the first language ported to any system, almost every computer science program at least covers the basics, it has been in 1st/2nd place on the TIOBE index for over a decade, its the 5th most popular language on github by commits and it is over 40 years old.
But- I'm willing to accept there might be people on Hacker news that don't know C, thats why I gave suggestions to the author to expand on the content and make it interesting to a wider audience. That was the point of my post.
