Chicken Soup for the Grug-pilled C programmer soul (1. Strings)

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tuatoru · 7h ago

My two cents: If strings are a significant feature of your application, C is not the right implementation language for you.

I say that as someone who likes C and these days writes more of it than anything else. C's niche is systems programming and embedded, areas where strings are secondary at best.

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Chicken Soup for the Grug-pilled C programmer soul (1. Strings)

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