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Re:Rust for Python Programmers by mparr4 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:45PM (#9613833)
I'm in the same boat as you. I've been working through Learn C The Hard Way [1] as a way to learn some of these concepts. I've been finding it incredibly valuable/rewarding.

That said, even the author of LCTHW (Zed Shaw) recommends writing in languages other than C. He specifically mentions Go, Swift, and Rust.

Check out his rant on K&R C at the end of LCTHW for his thoughts on your question: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

[1]: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

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Re:Rust for Python Programmers by castell on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:02AM (#9616293)
Weird rant. C is not dead, especially not for really low level high performance things. But Go/Rust/Swift are more modern and easier to use for some of C and many of C++ use cases.
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