> The status of C as the lingua franca of today's computing makes it worthwhile to write tools for it, so there are many tools being written.
The vast, vast majority of programmers aren’t doing their computing by writing C anymore. It’s been the better part of 20 years since you could plausibly call it the Lingua Franca of computing.
Lingua Franca in this case typically refers to the fact that you write a library with at least C ABI support if you want it to have the largest user base. Almost all languages' FFIs support some C ABI for their libraries.
The vast, vast majority of programmers aren’t doing their computing by writing C anymore. It’s been the better part of 20 years since you could plausibly call it the Lingua Franca of computing.