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Comment by m11a

C syntactically is straight forward, but conceptually may be harder than Rust. You’re exposed to the bare computer (memory management, etc) far more than with a GC language or even Rust arguably, at least for simple programs.

Towards deployment is even harder. You can very easily end up writing exploitable, unsafe code in C.

If I were a Python programmer with little knowledge about how a computer works, I’d much prefer Go or Rust (in that order) to C.

parent m11a 1 year ago

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