C is still in the top 10 programming languages being used today.
FORTRAN and COBOL, the other popular VINTAGE languages are nowhere to be found in the top 10.
See here: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
and here:
http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
C is sill #2 in 2017 - top 5 languages, 3 are C variants.
1) Java
2) C
3) C++
4) C#
5) Python
‘C’ is used for embedded devices these days.
Hell everything has a program(s) behind it now.
I still like Python though.