To me it seems like the one of the least useful language out there, but a lot of people love it.
The one use case where it seems good is I think people were saying you could use it to write a compiler that you could bootstrap some other language in, because it's so small and presumably easy to audit at the assembly language level to avoid Trusting Trust problems.
Everything else seems rather like suckless, it appeals to people who live simplicity for it's own sake, and want maximum control and understanding of the system, not so much to who want to support every file format ever made and handle every possible user error and hardware failure and last minute use case change, and reuse as much well known black box code as possible.
The one use case where it seems good is I think people were saying you could use it to write a compiler that you could bootstrap some other language in, because it's so small and presumably easy to audit at the assembly language level to avoid Trusting Trust problems.
Everything else seems rather like suckless, it appeals to people who live simplicity for it's own sake, and want maximum control and understanding of the system, not so much to who want to support every file format ever made and handle every possible user error and hardware failure and last minute use case change, and reuse as much well known black box code as possible.