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yesterday, i recommended "the c programming language" here on HN. and i wanted to see if it's still a number one best seller on amazon. i was quite surprised.
by blondin 5y ago
yesterday, i recommended "the c programming language" here on HN. and i wanted to see if it's still a number one best seller on amazon. i was quite surprised.
"the rust programming language" has taken over "the c programming language" in the "c programming" best sellers mind you!
i am getting more and more curious about this language. i have avoided it for a long time because of the inconsistent syntax i have seen in the wild.
- leetrout 5y agoThe syntax feels more unusual than some others but it isnt so bad once you use it. It still baffles me when i try to understand parts of it in isolation. As with all things it normalizes with exposure.
- worik 5y ago> i have avoided it for a long time because of the inconsistent syntax i have seen in the wild. What do you mean?
- tialaramex 5y agoI'm intrigued too. One obvious cause of "inconsistent syntax" would be if you saw any pre-1.0 Rust. Early Rust is a very different animal, it has a different concurrency model, it has a garbage collector, and the syntax is not at all like it is today. Such radical changes would of course be completely unacceptable for an industrial language, and sure enough 1.0 is the end of it.
- worik 5y agoThere have been some changes since too. I am hazy, not done as much Rust as I would like I am interested in what the issues are people have had
- nabakin 5y agoI'm wondering about this too.
- runevault 5y agoIt seems as though the C Programming category on Amazon really just means System Programming. I've seen several different Rust books show up high on that list in the past several months (normally by looking at the book and seeing it listed as rank #x on that list, I don't tend to look at the C language list).