Python has the snake, Perl has the camel, Rust, whether you like the pun or not, has the crab. I propose C, in the spirit of being named after a letter of the alphabet, make its mascot animal Big Bird.
To me the "C (the programming language) is an FFI protocol" has the same energy as the "Corn is a platform" Twitter thread, and that's why I love it.
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I also feel like the ownership metaphor makes it much easier for me to understand what & and * mean, and why you would use them… Thinking of &x as a "borrowed x" sticks in my mind much more than whatever the hell it meant in K&R C.