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Genuine question: what do you mean by ‘daily coding’? I certainly find C acceptable, if not compelling, for doing widely portable, memory and speed sensitive s
by throwaway17_17 3y ago
Genuine question: what do you mean by ‘daily coding’?
I certainly find C acceptable, if not compelling, for doing widely portable, memory and speed sensitive software engineering, but that is not what I would typically associate with ‘daily coding’ tasks. I would normally use that term to signal thing like data, task, and OS automations (i.e. scripting, command line convenience apps, text/binary file compression/search/reorganization).
Not knocking your answer, just trying to get your intended meaning to evaluate whether I agree with the particular use case as a fit for a language as minimal and manual as C.
- synergy20 3y agoI do embedded stuff so C is the primary language, sometimes C++ as well.
- throwaway17_17 3y agoThat’s cool, for you C is in fact a daily coding language and I’m probably a little jealous that you get to do low level, performance critical work regularly.