For the last couple of weeks I've been writing a project in C for the first time, and while it takes a little time to get used to, once you've adjusted to it it's actually quite an elegant and enjoyable language to use, and isn't as scary as you may think.
Would recommend giving it a shot if you haven't tried it before.
Ah yes, because "Parse, Don't Validate" is totally going to save you from C's foot-gun tendencies. 
Let's all pretend that throwing conceptual correctness at C won't lead to a spectacular explosion of memory leaks and buffer overflows! 
https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html #CProgramming #MemoryLeaks #BufferOverflows #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
I do a lot of programming in C which usually contains a bunch of functions that I create. Just curious... am I the only one that always ends my main() function by printing "END OF LINE."? Just wondering... 
Programming Like It’s 1986, For Fun and Zero Profit - Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of thos... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/programming-like-its-1986-for-fun-and-zero-profit/ #softwaredevelopment #conwaysgameoflife #retrocomputing #macintoshplus #cprogramming #retro
@chad @Chigaze @grammargirl I was going to say as a C programmer, I’m not only using the semicolon all the time, I can get quite distraught when I miss one! 
Behold the next messiah of C programming, valiantly reinventing linked lists with "innovative" type-safe generics no one asked for! Who knew unions and typeof could transform C into a whole new world... of excruciating complexity? 
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/ #CProgramming #TypeSafeGenerics #LinkedLists #Innovation #Complexity #HackerNews #ngated
I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
In standard C, without architecutre-dependent intrinsics, what is the most performant way of unpacking a 32-bit 8-bpp RGBA value into a 64-bit 16-bpp RGBA value? I need something that will CLEARLY compile into a SIMD instruction, but in standard C.
Behold, the tech wizards have distilled C into a mystical 'subset' for Web Assembly, because why not make a complex language even more obtuse? Meanwhile, #GitHub insists on AI-powered coding because we clearly can't trust humans to write code anymore.
https://github.com/kign/c4wa #CProgramming #WebAssembly #AI #CodingTech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule
Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CZeroSizeMallocSomeNotes
Today I've finished #teaching to my current customer how to maintain the #software I've developed for them once I've left. Two sessions of 3h and 3h40, teaching to 4 people, all in #japanese of course. A bit tired tonight, but both the users and the IT team are super happy with what I've done (solving a #combinatorial #optimisation problem to save them several hours of work every week and help #organic #farmers ) and I was happy to teach about what I love the most: #programming .
Bonus point for preaching about #testdrivendevelopment and the beauty of #cprogramming .
Also still looking for my next contract ! #fedihire #jobsearch
Software Tools in C
https://github.com/chenshuo/software-tools-in-c
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/chenshuo/software-tools-in-c
Initialising a pointer to struct
https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=12736
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=12736
