Comment by jacob019

Having spent the past decade working with python, I've always considered C to be a mystical black box for hardcore systems guys. I recently needed to write some high performance networking code so I decided to give it a shot. At first I found it painfully verbose and confusing, with the simplest operations requiring lines of code. After a couple days I found it to be rather refreshing, it encourages you to look at memory from a more basic perspective and efficiency just falls in place. Pointers are confusing and strict typing takes some getting used to, but they are awesome. It's great to be able to use the same memory with different types and structures, so better than copying things around. I still love Python, but I will be using C again when performance matters.