eli5: How is C still the fastest mainstream language?

Question

I’ve heard that lots of languages come close, but how has a faster language not been created for over 50 years?

Excluding assembly.

In: 2072

Answer 1

Because 99.99% of the time you don’t care about how fast something is (which can be improved by a programming language change). It’ll be fast enough most of the time and you save so much time using a modern programming language compared to C. Sure there’s times where things need to be fast, and that’s when you use C