Academic liars

If they say they want to make programming better and they use C, teach C, or are not trying to replace C, they are a liar.
If they say C is a good imperative programming language and anything better must be functional or object-oriented, they are a liar.
If they say a simplified or less undefined C will make programming better, they are a liar.
If they say C is too hard to replace, they are a liar.

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the fact that people download libraries instead of writing everything from scratch?

No, high-quality libraries are great. 100 MB frameworks and browsers bundled with every program are not. They mean there's something wrong with the tools you are using. If you need 1000 times more disk space and RAM to do the same things more slowly with more code, they are not the right tools. You can't learn computer science with anything this badly designed. All you learn is the specifics of bad languages and libraries. They always say ``industry'' is worse but they are helping everyone ``transition'' to JavaScript crap. They are making it worse.

string manipulation functions, date/time utilities, filesystem wrappers, unicode tools and tcp/ip stacks

String manipulation is the only thing on that list that is a computer science fundamental. All of those things are already part of the operating system. You're building an ``inner platform'' over the operating system. Node, Electron, and Docker are ``inner platforms'' too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect