I was sure learning C was a waste of time for web stuff

For the first year I only did Python and JavaScript, thinking C was just for old systems. Then I took a course that had us write a basic web server in C from scratch. Seeing how memory gets allocated and how sockets actually work made JavaScript's fetch() API click in a way it never had before. Has anyone else had a language they avoided turn out to be super helpful for understanding the basics?

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palmer.laura4d ago

Totally get that, C makes everything else make sense.

tarat594d ago

Used to hate C, found it super clunky and hard to read. Then I had to debug some high-level code that was acting crazy. Tracing it back to how C handles memory showed me the whole machine. Now I see it as the foundation, and everything built on top just clicks better.