Learn C programming and the rest will come

Re:Learn C programming and the rest will come by jackhalford on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:27AM (#22010234)

Manipulating a string can be a complex operation in terms of memory and CPU instruction. For systems programming you don't want to hide that complexity.

e.g in Rust you `a+b` two strings, it is a trivial rust line but it won't compile down to trivial assembly.

There's a case to be made for languages that closely map the way processors works, like C.

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Re:Learn C programming and the rest will come by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:03PM (#22012439)

Though C doesn't closely map to the way processors work. It closely maps to the way the PDP11 worked, but for modern processors it's pretty far. It doesn't expose any of the ideas of caching, for example.

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