I’m scared of the day that I have to learn C because I’m either going to love it or hate it and I’m pretty sure that will eternally determine my fate as a programmer

@kasdeya unfortunately many are trying to say C is passée now.
it also depends what you want to do, i don't like building large things in C as much as tiny little things to do specific tasks.
It's best to take things slowly and gradually, i mostly learned by compiling and fixing others' programs and stuff

@wyatt

unfortunately many are trying to say C is passée now.

ugh, yeah I’ve heard people try to say that Rust essentially makes C obsolete which is :/ but it seems like C is still the lingua franca of any low-level operations that a computer does. like if you want to communicate something low-level to someone you explain it in C, and a lot of reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra will try to decompile stuff into C

plus if you want to create bindings for using some library in a higher-level language, you’ll probably have to write those bindings in C (or maybe C++?)

also I feel like anything that’s considered a replacement for C is also much, much more complex than C is and I really don’t like complexity in my programming languages if I can help it. like Rust for example is such a maximalist language, and even languages that are meant to be simple like Zig still feel very overcomplicated to me

It’s best to take things slowly and gradually, i mostly learned by compiling and fixing others’ programs and stuff

that makes sense! I actually almost never work with others’ code so that’s a skill that it’ll probably be good for me to learn eventually. and I hope that I’ll be able to take things slowly with C as well