I love C. It's the language that makes me the most happy. I'm not entirely sure why, I think I like being in control. People always comment about C is unsafe, full of razors and knives flying around.
The thing to keep in mind is that *you* are the one throwing the razors and knives from the moment you go beyond printf("hello, world!\n");
I'd never recommend a company to start building anything in C. In term of the various team sizes and staff churn over the lifetime of a company, it's too risky.
But afaik most companies, particularly the growth hacking ones, are either Go or Kotlin or at that level of abstraction. Rust is slowly eating at C++ and I'm pretty sure no company in their right mind today start a new product in C++. It will slowly become COBOL.
C on the other hand still has new C written every day. I'm a polyglot and I love C, but I never had a job in C. I hope some day that happens. The modern tools aforementioned, e.g. static analysis, clangd, are really good.
The thing I love most about C is that there is a direct relationship between me doing something stupid and feeling pain for it. In python, I can write crap all day without feeling it. Some day I'll feel it, but not today!
I like small binaries and fast code. I like that when a developer tells me I did something wrong, they can prove it, and it's not some stupid high level language "the more you knoooow". I like control over things.
I love modern C and I wish it well!
The thing to keep in mind is that *you* are the one throwing the razors and knives from the moment you go beyond printf("hello, world!\n");
I'd never recommend a company to start building anything in C. In term of the various team sizes and staff churn over the lifetime of a company, it's too risky.
But afaik most companies, particularly the growth hacking ones, are either Go or Kotlin or at that level of abstraction. Rust is slowly eating at C++ and I'm pretty sure no company in their right mind today start a new product in C++. It will slowly become COBOL.
C on the other hand still has new C written every day. I'm a polyglot and I love C, but I never had a job in C. I hope some day that happens. The modern tools aforementioned, e.g. static analysis, clangd, are really good.
The thing I love most about C is that there is a direct relationship between me doing something stupid and feeling pain for it. In python, I can write crap all day without feeling it. Some day I'll feel it, but not today!
I like small binaries and fast code. I like that when a developer tells me I did something wrong, they can prove it, and it's not some stupid high level language "the more you knoooow". I like control over things.
I love modern C and I wish it well!