No, that is fair, the "c" for TI fixed-point dsps is pretty odd. Andy Tiny go is better than I was first thinking after I dug more. It uses llvm backend to target lots of archs. I'm not clear if you get to keep gc or not. Or what other features you lose.

I'm not defending c, and if my only choices for a new project were a weird flavor c or a weird flavor of go, I can't imagine I'd pick c. Or even c99 vs a weird flavor of go.

But I don't forsee that ever being the choice. What does tinygo offer over other llvm backended languages targeting the same archs? GC seems like that might be the answer if you don't lose it? Channels and greenthreads? Library support if it compiles? I really don't find rust too complicated after using for real work. Both nim and zig seem like better choices than go as well. Even julia if you do some nonstandard stuff. And ada would be the other obvious choice.

Edit: sorry D should probably get a mention here too with new targets having been added.