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If you really want to understand how programming languages work internally, you should look at assembly language or possibly at the bytecode interpreters of som

• shrimp_emoji 4y ago
  The definition of "low level" keeps changing over time. :p At this rate, Python will be called "low level" 50 years from now. But to the OP: Rust is just "C for the 21st century" (despite people often calling Go that). The UX is stellar -- `cargo run` can't be beat, integrated unit testing, safety concepts learned in the last few decades are applied by default, and the docs are great[0]. I don't think there's any reason to learn C first, especially if you're coming from a "high level" background like TypeScript, other than experiencing culture shock and legacy braindeath horror. 0: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/title-page.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/title-page.html
  • LecroJS 4y ago
    Yeaaaa hearing c called high level makes me wonder what word would even describe the js/ts/Python I’m familiar with…