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I picked up an old C textbook this past summer exactly because I wanted to understand these things you've listed. After getting through it, I had a hard time imagining any project I would write in C that wasn't a bare OS or a utility. It is heartening to hear that my efforts were not in vain

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this is more a question of low level languages vs higher level languages.

the benefit of low level languages is you learn how a computer actually works. The same argument here could be applied to C++ and Rust in addition to C.

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Move on, there is nothing to C here...........................................................................Okay! Okay! I'm going, I'm going. Stop pushing.

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I spent 8 years in C . I can greatly resonate with this post.

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