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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Quite frankly I wouldn’t recommend learning C these days except for maintaining, there are better languages e.g Rust, Go, Zig, Swift. And the Eu and US are cracking down on unsafe Code including open source.

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      3 days ago

      A-ha, better languages my ass. They may make some specific job easier, but calling them good just because of that - nuh-uh. I would (and actually will) rather spend time learning to properly use C or C++

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          3 days ago

          Nothing a Valgrind pass can’t solve. A surprisingly number of developers I’ve met have never heard of this tool, surprisingly, which is probably one of the reasons why people advocate for Rust. Can’t really protect against developer ignorance without a strict language.

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      4 days ago

      Agreed, I only found one of these with the C book in it. I think it would make much more sense with the Rust book.