c.md

C

• Project Based Tutorials in C

• Beej’s Guide to C Programming

• Compiler Explorer: Matt Godbolt - Web based - See C code and compiled ASM (x86/Arm/riskV)

  • It highlights with colors what parts of the C code is turned into the ASM bits.

• webassembly

  • compile C, rust, assemblyscript in a browser

• Debugging systems level librarys

  • Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening

• Some Were Meant for C Stephen Kell 2017

  • The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language
  • The C language leads a double life: as an application program-ming language of yesteryear, perpetuated by circumstance,
  • and as a systems programming language which remains a weapon of choice decades after its creation.
  • This essay is a C programmer’s reaction to the call to abandon ship.

• "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

  • Memory security problems happen in C. Other languages are fine. Come on C programmers, admit that the language is the issue!