Why I Use C | Prime Reacts

Turned 3 mins video into 13 mins, is this guy the best react streamer or what

Prime might be a web dev, but we all know hes moving towards C/C++

Wait, did Prime just subtly endorse the practice of quiche eating? Revoke this man's x86 Assembly license immediately!

C is still the closest thing to cross-platform assembly. I also love the simplicity of the language, and it shows with how small and fast its compilers are. I only wish it had better tooling, as something like cargo really speeds up development.

My reason for C is much simpler. I need to justify my alcoholism.

„Giving yourself more control, but it comes at a cost of time“ Uses NeoVim and writes own Plugins

4:13 this. C _feels_ like it’s a direct translation of the assembly into a little bit more friendly and universal language. But in reality we got caching, pipelineing, branching probability dependent pipeline prefetching, hyper threading etc etc on top of that we have compiler optimizations In reality much much more is happening under the hood, that is abstracted away into a black box so the cpu acts like we think it should.

After 40 years in IT as a reseller and now retired, I wanted to warm up my old hobby - programming. After two years of C++, I realized, that I'm not compatible with C++ and ended with C and it's great. When memory management and logic goes hand in hand, I just love it.

5:00 "the same reason I don't use arch" mmm this has aged well

"A Book on C: programming in C" by Al Kelley & Ira Pohl and "The C Programming Language" by by Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie are great starting points. I still have both from way back when. C is simple, but profound. Mastering computing concepts in the context of C forms a strong foundation. Remembering that C considers Zero to be in the set of Natural Numbers, *and* not blowing past the end of arrays are the hardest parts of C!