Re:The C juggernaut illustrated (2012)
by FullyFunctional on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:48PM
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Your loss. I tried three times to learn Rust and I had plenty of doubts, but 3rd time I struck to it and it took maybe a year before I would reach for Rust before C (I have 40 years of C muscle memory so that's saying something). Some things _are_ awkward in Rust (eg. occasionally the explicit "a[x as usize]" casts are tiring), but the payoff is awesome.
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Re:The C juggernaut illustrated (2012)
by FullyFunctional on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:07PM
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ADD: what finally worked for me was to not read the book [linearly], but instead jumping between tons of sources, lots of exercises, and generally not stressing about getting everything in all the [ample] detail. And of course doing it and doing it every day. I definitely still have lots of holes (hello async) and I'm not shy about Cloning/Copying liberally unless it really matters for performance.