Acosix said:

C libraries are old but useful for 2D games.

True. Much of the C libraries have been matured, even perfected, so no need to “reinvent the wheel”.  Many people discover that a lot of frameworks, engines, middleware, and tools have a lot of C at least embedded in the source. Some are …

@undefined  I have been working with GTK for GUI, C coded applications strictly until I reach about intermediate level understanding. I am very happy with GTK. It is written in C, though eventually I will likely use bindings for other languages.              …