ranting about C [1/?]
this is a really important thing about programming that I think a lot of people in Computer Science need to actually read and wrap their heads around:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
C has this reputation as being a fast, low-level language, and I've heard so many C programmers say that the only way to make things fast is to use C or a language like C (because it's "low level")
ranting about C [2/?]
but it's not. C being taught in universities as a default language is absolutely disasterous for Computing as a field - it's an overly complex, difficult language that makes things hard, and is only fast because IT KEEPS BEING USED WHEN IT SHOULDN'T BE
it's from 50 years ago, and yet people treat it like it's some magical unicorn which we can never approach or criticise or improve.
and I'm sick of that attitude.
I'm sick of people telling me that "nothing's as fast as C"
ranting about C [3/?]
I think that last paragrap in the article is so important.
Parallelism is easy. It's so easy. It's so so easy. But it's unapproachably difficult in C and the languages directly based on C