alt Hacker NewsEmbedded programming is still in C for a lot of micro controllers and whatnot. If you’re programming with limited resources it’s essential to understand pointers and arrays. Likely you won’t be doing anything useful without them
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throwaway27448 • today at 5:37 AM
I understand certain programmers are chained to C. We should use this opportunity to castigate the people who don't target better languages rather than trying to work with clearly outdated tools.
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With very few exceptions like PICs, most of them also support C++, which has nice goodies like span and views, that can be optionally bounds checked.