Learn C or Rust first?

Re:Learn C or Rust first? by Pharohbot on Sunday December 14, 2014 @09:30AM (#8748350)

but I stated that I do not wish to learn about how the internals of the computer works, rather than im more interested in the language itself, which is Rust. plus I saw Elixir, I didnt like it all :(

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Re:Learn C or Rust first? by angersock on Sunday December 14, 2014 @02:39PM (#8749284)

So, no language worth it's salt completely hides how the computer works from you (again, except for certain members of the FP family, or declarative languages like Prolog or SQL).

For example, Javascript has a problems when adding ".1+.2". Know why? IEEE754 limitations on double-precision floating-point arithmetic, as implemented in hardware.

Programming languages exist to program the machine, full stop. Everything else is just people faffing about on their thesis defense.

Anyways, if you didn't like Elixir--probably because you don't have the experience yet to see why it's awesome--that's okay: learn C. :)

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Re:Learn C or Rust first? by Pharohbot on Sunday December 14, 2014 @02:47PM (#8749312)

I really meant that I prefer JS(Node/IO) over Elixir.

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Re:Learn C or Rust first? by zzzcpan on Sunday December 14, 2014 @10:10AM (#8748433)

You can never truly understand the language unless you learn about things it compiles into.

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Re:Learn C or Rust first? by markuz on Friday December 19, 2014 @01:24AM (#8771322)

do you know assembly ? and what about raw binary ?

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