But that CS course was at least half a decade after I began writing C, which was in turn after many years of BASIC (and somewhere in there a little bit of Z80 assembler, but man assembler sucks when the CPU is as limited as the Z80 was, you young people who have a fucking floating point multiply instruction don't know what you've got etc.) Now, maybe it helps my CS course's first language was SML/NJ and of course Rust is basically an ML in a trench coat pretending to be a semi-colon language like C.
Rust has coherent answers to a lot of questions that, to my mind, should be in any C programmer's head. I haven't written a C compiler but I can see how I would go about it, I know a lot of the weird arcana, and I followed WG14 enough to be heartened but not astonished when C23 got #embed while C++ still can't unstick their version of this work (and thus in practice if you're a C++ programmer you should hope your vendor's C++ compiler just offers the C feature anyway)īut I fell very much for Rust in about 2021, and now definitely wouldn't write any more C. Do you think so? I would consider myself an Expert C programmer.
