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The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality (www.lelanthran.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Penguincoder to c/programming

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C is an old language lacking many, many, many modern features. One of the features it does not lack is encapsulation and isolation.

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[–] bl_r 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a love hate relationship with C. I love the simplicity of the language. Although it is simpler, it is certainly possible to emulate many features found in other languages like the encapsulation, though rarely perfectly, and not every feature.

I also like C because I am dealing with code at a lower level leads me to having a much better understanding of what is happening under the hood. However, this lower level access allows you to accidentally write bad code that could introduce a vulnerability

[–] Penguincoder 5 points 1 year ago

Same. It's not a perfect language, far from such. It is simple but not easy. I too believe it helps with understanding exactly what the code is doing via being lower level.

[–] livendie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using C is a great way to learn some discipline, your given so much control.

[–] bl_r 4 points 1 year ago

Shooting yourself in the foot is a great way to learn discipline. It is how I learned to be careful of what I am writing. However, I think in most cases a memory safe language could be better.

[–] Hexorg 1 points 1 year ago

JavaScript is much much higher level than C, but there are vulnerability announcements in npm all the time. C does, however, let you implement more kinds of vulnerabilities associated with memory handling.