> the best way to use C is to use it to implement core algorithms and data structures
is this a joke. you literally cannot write containers in C unless you commit to heap-allocating everything and storing it as void*
> Most software engineers I know who have a background in EE love C, simply because it maps very well to what a processor actually does during execution.
lol. no it absolutely does not. i have a B.S. CpE and have actually built simple processors. the C execution model has nothing to do with how silicon operates, and modern silicon in particular goes to absurd lengths to put up a façade that c programs can use to pretend they're still on a pdp-11 while the processor goes and does other things.
easy example: here's a memory address. what happens when you try to read from it