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Should I Create A Rust or C Wikibook? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Lofenyy@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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Folks, I need a hobby. I'm a C programmer who has lost his passion for programming, it seems. I've decided to try to spark my passion again by going back to the basics, perhaps by creating a programming tutorial Wikibook, for modern applications.

The trouble is, I cannot decide if I should make C or Rust my programming language of choice.

I use C all the time, and have barely any experience in Rust.

Do I go with ol' reliable and risk being outdated in a few years, or go with the new language and risk being too niche and unpopular?

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

Rust is definitely not new and niche anymore, its the most popular language in the StackOverflow surveys.

A C book feels dated at this point, there are very strong recommendations that C is to be phased out in favor of memory safe languages. But people have been signalling the death of C for decades, so it probably has a few more years left.

A good C book on how to write memory safe C would be useful. Its been tried many times, but newcomers to C still seem to struggle with allocation and freeing, and thread safety.