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+    title: "Reasons to use C in 2023",
+    summary: Some("I tend to reach for Rust a lot, but lately have been enjoying coding in C"),
+    published: None,
+    tags: [
+        "C",
+        "",
+        "programming",
+        "minimalism",
+    ],
+)
+---
+If you have seen my programming projects or a bit of this gemlog it's plain as day that I write a lot of Rust code, but lately I've been revisiting C and actually quite enjoying the experience. I thought it might be good to give a rundown of some of the reasons one might want to use C in 2023, when we have so many "better" languages available. I'm sure others will have reasons of their own why they use or don't use a given programming language. It's always a hot topic. But I thought even so my perspective might be interesting considering my usual programming output.
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+## The C compiler -really- trusts you
+If you've ever read Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" there's a tenet about the language that is mentioned repeatedly: Trust the Programmer. I think this sums up a lot about C, and it explains the choices made when designing the language as well as the slow pace of "progress" over the years when it comes to adding features.

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+## 2023-08-26 22:52 UTC
+Currently building packages from Pkgsrc for x86_64 Linux with Musl libc. Builds keep failing due to using types which Musl has hidden behind `_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE`. It's an easy fix, but it would be great if all of these upstream packages would write "modern" C/C++. I'm looking at you, LLVM.
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 ## 2023-08-23 20:55 UTC
 Working on bringing some HitchHiker packages up to date. I also simplified code in a couple of the utilities written specifically for hhl, and added some man pages.
 ## 2023-08-22 04:39 UTC