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C Programming Language
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Postgres and MySQL/mariadb are all primarily written in C.
Contrary to what other posters here claim, most programming languages are not written in C, but are self hosted. Ie. written using themselves. This usually involves a small bootstrapping component written in C or something similar, but that is a minor part of a whole