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C compilers are fast today.
They used to be crap in the early 90's and seen as we see Python and Ruby performance nowadays.
Execution speed isn't a magic feature of C, not available to any other compiled language.
C is the systems programming language that allows for buffer overruns, memory corruption and dangling pointers everywhere in the codebase.
Other systems programming languages allow developers to explicitly only use those features explicitly when required. In C using strings is enough.
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C compilers are fast today.
They used to be crap in the early 90's and seen as we see Python and Ruby performance nowadays.
Execution speed isn't a magic feature of C, not available to any other compiled language.
C is the systems programming language that allows for buffer overruns, memory corruption and dangling pointers everywhere in the codebase.
Other systems programming languages allow developers to explicitly only use those features explicitly when required. In C using strings is enough.