Why am I writing this post? Not because I hope for something or believe in change. These are just words. I could write this at the end, but then you would be looking for answers for me while reading, and I don’t need them. They won’t change anything.
So here it is. I don’t claim to be a software development guru or a C language expert. I’m just a simple developer.
Why are we looking for new technologies? Why do we want to be part of a community that is buzzing with new projects? Why do we think that this new programming language will definitely help us create something amazing and truly great and, of course, will make us rich and provide us with a comfortable old age?
Why are we offered so many courses in so many programming languages and frameworks? Why do we teach what is required for companies that make money from us?
Why are there a lot of conferences on banal simple things, such as *** framework or ### technology (so as not to offend anyone), and there, with a smart look, newly minted gurus tell us how important it is to be able to transfer the value to the client and how to use certain templates?
Why do computers become more and more powerful, but programs continue to lag?
Why, when applying for a job, do we look for a vacancy based on knowledge of a programming language, but find it only based on knowledge of certain frameworks? Is it really difficult for a professional programmer to learn a framework in a week?
Why do we go into software development with the enthusiasm to create something great, but end up in a situation where we are developing some other catalog or some other digital yo-yo to make money?
Reason: because we want our passion for programming, our interest, to also bring us income.
Feature: we do not earn this money for ourselves, but for companies whose main goal is to quickly receive income from the software they sell.
Bugs: posts like this one.
Memory safety is exactly why c needs to die
What is memory safety? You as a programmer must control what you are doing. Right?
Software written by some (not you) developers using high level tools can be written by AI and will be soon.
Let’s learn C to not loose your job, lol.
You telling me you’ve never made a programming error? Your code always compiles and passes all tests right?
No. And what? I made a million errors and I am still alive.
Tell that to the victims of the Therac-25
that burned more than therac 25
Do you really not know what memory safety is? How long have you been programming?
It’s rust’s borrow checker or garbage collectors or smart pointers.
That’s not true at all. But if it was what stops the LLMs writing c?
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I love c# personally. Gives you flexibility to write high level code when performance isn’t an issue or jump all the way down to raw pointers and native compilation when it does.
Interestingly the new tiered jit can achieve better performance than a traditional compiler as it has runtime information to further optimise code.
C in my experience becomes a nightmare as code bases grow.