Procedural Language - Instructions in a C program are executed step by step. Portable - You can move C programs from one platform to another, and run it without any or minimal changes. Speed - C programming is faster than most programming languages like Java, Python, etc. General Purpose - C programming can be used to develop operating systems, embedded systems, databases, and so on.
C helps you to understand the internal architecture of a computer, how computer stores and retrieves information. After learning C, it will be much easier to learn other programming languages like Java, Python, etc. Opportunity to work on open source projects. Some of the largest open-source projects such as Linux kernel, Python interpreter, SQLite database, etc. are written in C programming.