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Do I go with ol’ reliable and risk being outdated in a few years, or go with the new language and risk being too niche and unpopular?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