kahlonel

Wrong. I’m still doing it.

99% people in this thread have no idea what you mean. And that’s the reason projects like these make it to frontpage every other day and have hundreds of upvotes/comments.

Embedded software developer here, with very minimal professional hardware design experience. I mostly write nostdlib C, and never use malloc. I write peripheral drivers from scratch even if there’s an “SDK” for it. I spend almost 40% of my time reading documentation, 30% scribbling state machines, 15% writing code and 15% testing it on hardware. LLMs don’t help me much. I use them to write scripts for me to parse my stdout and find patterns. For breakfast, I fight EEs to prove their hardware doesn’t work. I have exploded hardware setups for the products I’m developing for on my desk. JLink is the favorite thing in my aresenal. Even the slightest latency on my text editor annoys the shit out of me, which is why I don’t use IDEs.

Now we have vulnerabilities in two different flavors.

That's a great example of how to write C in 2025. Congrats and well done.

PuTTY was the first tool I ever used to SSH into a machine. My mind was blown when me and my friend wrote to the same file and could see each other’s sentences.

Flash

Awesome write up! Please don’t mind the hostile crowd here. They don’t like anything other than their favorite language on the front page. There’s a much bigger silent majority that still loves C and the things you can do with it.

Imagine going out, calling someone the N-word, and only getting 0.0379% of your income as a fine.

You mean the implementation is faster than the one in C. Because nothing is “faster than C”.

Because it’s the only language that doesn’t get in my way / add another cognitive layer to deal with. My modules can be as simple or as complex (by combining simpler ones) as I want.