Nitpick: everything you say is probably correct, but such performant C programming is also the very opposite of a "minimalistic and terse style".
Which one is more minimalistic, 'new Foo' or a collection of various custom-tuned allocation methods? Which one is more terse, 'myList.Where(foo).Select(bar).Aggregate(baz)' or an explicit for loop?
It is minimalistic in the sense that the language provides a narrow set of primitives and a skilled programmer combines these primitives in the most sensible way to solve the problem at hand. Higher level stuff in most other languages is much more generic.
Indeed, it may not be minimalistic in terms of the code size.
