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c has no memory management, its for the programmer itself. so if i a c program has bad memory management it's not the language but the programmer. (admittedly n

c has no memory management, its for the programmer itself. so if i a c program has bad memory management it's not the language but the programmer. (admittedly not easy to get right if you need to do it yourself.) C is specific in that it tries to give a good direct interface with hardware. If working within other software like an OS, it's tedious, as there's a lot of things outside of C itself to take into account. Again, not a downside of a language, but the way it is used. Javascript has no relation whatsoever to C, in its design nor implementation. it's a scripting language :/. C is far superior than a lot of languages, but it's often badly applied giving it a bad name. It has a more limited scope in todays world of rapid development on top of operating systems. For embedded / bare metal systems it rules the day and there's barely an alternative unless the bare metal provides excessive resources to allow for things like c++ or rust which add a lot of overhead to systems to provide more ease of use. (i.e. not always worth it / possible depending on the system its targeting.) assembly would be a good alternative to C, but it's incredibly more tedious, where C is a good high level repalcement for assembly, which is what it was designed to be. C is great, just don't use it if you don't need to use it.

mynegation 7y ago
> c has no memory management You might argue that C's memory management is simplistic, lacking, or error prone, that it is not automatic, that there is no garbage collection, but to say that C has no memory management is objectively wrong and detrimental to the understanding of how C works. Stack memory is tracked by both compiler and - in some cases - runtime (see "alloca") by creating a code that manipulates a set of registers. The memory in the heap is managed by a minimal set of calls: you can allocate a chunk of memory of a certain size, you can release it, or you can attempt to re-allocate it. Each of those calls maintains a data structure for tracking available chunks of memory in the raw address space, which programmer does not have to write. This is memory management.

mynegation 7y ago

> c has no memory management You might argue that C's memory management is simplistic, lacking, or error prone, that it is not automatic, that there is no garbage collection, but to say that C has no memory management is objectively wrong and detrimental to the understanding of how C works. Stack memory is tracked by both compiler and - in some cases - runtime (see "alloca") by creating a code that manipulates a set of registers. The memory in the heap is managed by a minimal set of calls: you can allocate a chunk of memory of a certain size, you can release it, or you can attempt to re-allocate it. Each of those calls maintains a data structure for tracking available chunks of memory in the raw address space, which programmer does not have to write. This is memory management.