Hi all!
I'm looking for recommendations on where to start with learning systems programming. Ideally, I'd like to be able to get to a point where I can make a living doing it, but currently I just want to do fun stuff to build up curiosity around it.
Here's all of the "low-level" stuff that I know so far / imagine being useful. I...
- Have enough of an understanding of networking to write a toy HTTP server on top of TCP
- Know enough C to write some basic terminal tools + window applications if needed (on Linux)
- Love terminal tools like neovim + several core utils
- Have dabbled with Arduino/ESP32 & communicating via USB over the serial port with a host pc
- Am pretty decent with Python, and have been using it for like 10 years
Some things that I've been curious about in the past
- Converting parts of python libraries from pure python to C/C++ bindings for better performance
- Writing a terminal based file manager to work with Google Chrome
- Actually contributing to chromium (my laptop is a potato though so all of my builds fail)
About me: I'm in my junior year of uni studying CS, and I've been able to make money doing web dev for the past 2 years of my degree. For many reasons including curiosity and the fact that AI makes me feel replaceable doing many frontend + backend tasks, though I'm very curious about getting into lower level programming.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm looking for recommendations on where to start with learning systems programming. Ideally, I'd like to be able to get to a point where I can make a living doing it, but currently I just want to do fun stuff to build up curiosity around it.
Here's all of the "low-level" stuff that I know so far / imagine being useful. I... - Have enough of an understanding of networking to write a toy HTTP server on top of TCP - Know enough C to write some basic terminal tools + window applications if needed (on Linux) - Love terminal tools like neovim + several core utils - Have dabbled with Arduino/ESP32 & communicating via USB over the serial port with a host pc - Am pretty decent with Python, and have been using it for like 10 years
Some things that I've been curious about in the past - Converting parts of python libraries from pure python to C/C++ bindings for better performance - Writing a terminal based file manager to work with Google Chrome - Actually contributing to chromium (my laptop is a potato though so all of my builds fail)
About me: I'm in my junior year of uni studying CS, and I've been able to make money doing web dev for the past 2 years of my degree. For many reasons including curiosity and the fact that AI makes me feel replaceable doing many frontend + backend tasks, though I'm very curious about getting into lower level programming.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!