C vs C++ Preferences

What languages would you personally pick over C?

I can only speak about my own experience as an ops person, but C++ always just felt off to me for some reason. I tried to learn and use it for about 6 months and I always felt like I was so bogged down in minutia and standards.C let's me focus on the underlying system and it is what Linux is written in, Python is quick to write and has great libraries, and Go is amazingly easy to pick up/read.C++ always felt like it was more so a language designed for programmers who love code th

C is hard. It seems like C++ just made things way harder. I don't regret skipping it. Why not just go right to Java, C#, JS, Haskell, etc. and do what you need in C.

Do you enjoy C over other options?

I'm in the same boat. Took me a while to accept that I am a C programmer at heart, it suits me the best. I feel like I'm in full control and I can move fast with it. Not all razors are on us though, especially if moving around compilers since there are here and there undefined behaviour parts and it's easy to throw knives around.I also wouldn't recommend starting a new thing with it if the whole team wasn't well-versed with it. On the other side of spectrum, today

Are languages like C & C++ that much better?

I keep on thinking I want to pick up C again (made a living with it 20 years ago), then I remember all the goodness that C++ adds (made a living with it 10 years ago), then I remember that C++ is huge and cryptic and I get all depressed again.

I’ve been writing C code for 30 years. What I like about it is code from back then is pretty much similar to what you’d right today so there’s limited need to chase the train. Sure it has security issues but if you don things ‘right’ it’s still untouchable, imo. Most other languages are heavy and slow compared to C. A lot are not even backwardly compatible (python) or suffer from being kitchen sinks (C++). My own opinion is that python is the only other ‘must know’ language as you can do RAD. Fo

There is absolutely no reason not to use C++ in modern software development.Its nightmarishly complicated and gives you 1000 ways to blow your foot off, and maybe one or two to get the job done properly. After about 18 years of C++ development I still go for C sometimes. C is a lovely language that is much easier to learn. I cannot believe anyone would cheerlead for C++. Its a necessary evil.

I want to learn C not (only) because I think it's useful, but because I think I might like it. I have a particular interpreted language that I like, enjoy and know inside out, now I want to know a compiled one in a similar way.To answer your question: I get the impression from various tech news on "hot new languages" that C is the incumbent systems language that people put up with but don't really love, and yet I want to try and love it. I've developed a taste for min