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>Is living programming in C even possible or it became a purely hobby language for people doing angular.js on their day jobs? C is still widely used. I think i

>Is living programming in C even possible or it became a purely hobby language for people doing angular.js on their day jobs? C is still widely used. I think if you really want to just work with C you should focus on embedded stuff, surely not every job in embedded requires experience. One industry which is quite C heavy is aerospace. You do not need to work for Boeing/Airbus though, there are many, many suppliers who are doing embedded work.

fisherjeff 4y ago
I second this comment - aerospace and adjacent industries have a ton of embedded C work for all levels of experience. As others have mentioned, I would expect the automotive industry to be very similar, but I don't have any personal experience there. Good luck!
- badRNG 4y ago
  Just putting my experience out there, across the space/aerospace industry I've seen a lot of C++ and Ada, but not much actual "C".
  - sho_hn 4y ago
    I work for a car OEM. We are mostly using C++. C skills do come in handy for the existing body of software in systems such as Linux, but we very rarely write new code in C.
Arch-TK 4y ago
I am a big fan of C, for all its faults, it's the language I have by far the most experience in, I have read multiple standard revisions multiple times at this point and regularly advise people on their understanding of the standard and how to write C. I would absolutely hate working in embedded (if it runs linux it's not the kind of embedded I'm talking about) for a salary. Nobody treats C with any care or respect in those areas. Either that or the language is written like a legal document. If you like C because you've played around with it, understand the abstract machine and can write it safely working with a modern standard, don't expect embedded development to be ANYTHING like that.
- rramadass 4y ago
  I am not sure what you are trying to say here. It comes off as you trying to discourage people from entering Embedded Development which is absolutely wrong. Anybody who is interested in learning/using C/C++ SHOULD absolutely look into Embedded Programming. That is where the "rubber meets the road" and gives you the intellectual satisfaction of learning/understanding "everything" (i.e. HW & SW). Embedded Development encompasses a broad spectrum from Application programming (eg. Apps in a Network WiFi Router), Kernel/Device Driver programming (eg. RTOS/Linux in the same Network WiFi Router) to bare-metal programming (eg. 8-bit etc. MCUs). So one really gets to know how to use C/C++ (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly) as the situation demands to solve a problem. All the standards are merely guides to follow (i.e. not commandments from above) which is only deviated from when needed.

fisherjeff 4y ago

I second this comment - aerospace and adjacent industries have a ton of embedded C work for all levels of experience. As others have mentioned, I would expect the automotive industry to be very similar, but I don't have any personal experience there. Good luck!

badRNG 4y ago
Just putting my experience out there, across the space/aerospace industry I've seen a lot of C++ and Ada, but not much actual "C".
- sho_hn 4y ago
  I work for a car OEM. We are mostly using C++. C skills do come in handy for the existing body of software in systems such as Linux, but we very rarely write new code in C.

Arch-TK 4y ago

I am a big fan of C, for all its faults, it's the language I have by far the most experience in, I have read multiple standard revisions multiple times at this point and regularly advise people on their understanding of the standard and how to write C. I would absolutely hate working in embedded (if it runs linux it's not the kind of embedded I'm talking about) for a salary. Nobody treats C with any care or respect in those areas. Either that or the language is written like a legal document. If you like C because you've played around with it, understand the abstract machine and can write it safely working with a modern standard, don't expect embedded development to be ANYTHING like that.

rramadass 4y ago
I am not sure what you are trying to say here. It comes off as you trying to discourage people from entering Embedded Development which is absolutely wrong. Anybody who is interested in learning/using C/C++ SHOULD absolutely look into Embedded Programming. That is where the "rubber meets the road" and gives you the intellectual satisfaction of learning/understanding "everything" (i.e. HW & SW). Embedded Development encompasses a broad spectrum from Application programming (eg. Apps in a Network WiFi Router), Kernel/Device Driver programming (eg. RTOS/Linux in the same Network WiFi Router) to bare-metal programming (eg. 8-bit etc. MCUs). So one really gets to know how to use C/C++ (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly) as the situation demands to solve a problem. All the standards are merely guides to follow (i.e. not commandments from above) which is only deviated from when needed.