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Re:Essential C (2003) [pdf] by p1esk on Monday December 31, 2018 @07:24PM (#18798073)
If you like "intimacy with hardware" you can drop down one level below machine code and design a processor on an FPGA with Verilog. Or, to go even deeper, design a custom circuit with SPICE.

C might be the optimal point on the abstraction ladder as far as the trade off between (exposed) complexity and control.

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Re:Essential C (2003) [pdf] by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @12:53AM (#18799150)
You can go still lower. You can create custom transistors. You might even create custom semiconductor substrates...

... and there we stop. Nobody gets to create custom atoms.

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