The cost of forsaking C
Ah, C, the love of my life...<p>Want minimal syntactic sugar and a language that&#x27;s not prone to feature-of-the-week hipsterism? C<p>Want to make tiny binaries for some obscure system with virtually no storage or RAM? C.<p>Want to know where every last cycle goes and explicitly control everything? C<p>Want to trivially import any of the huge array of existing libraries? You guessed it...<p>Want to do something you really shouldn&#x27;t, and any &#x27;sensible&#x27; language might attempt to stop, but is called for right here and now...<p>It&#x27;s not the safest language, it&#x27;s not the most expressive, but the syntax is small enough to hold in your head and the body of existing, available work is HUGE. I&#x27;ve been working in C for 15 years and, while I enjoy forays into other languages, it will always be my love.