Re:Learn C programming and the rest will come
by detaro on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:36AM
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What are you thinking of when you say "low-level networking code"? Because if you mean socket-API, I'd disagree, the C version doesn't teach much its bindings in higher-level languages (which often mirror it quite closely anyways) necessarily wouldn't, even if the languages also offer more abstracted APIs on top.
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Re:Learn C programming and the rest will come
by monoideism on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:43AM
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I'm thinking about network protocols and binary packets, specifically. To me, that stuff is pretty important to have a grasp of. It's very awkward to do packet parsing and generation in Python, for example (I've done it).
Even working in front-end dev now, I benefit from understanding what's driving HTTP and WebSocket (High-Performance Browser Networking is also a great book for understanding this stuff).