Advice for Writing Small Programs in C

[HersonBagay]

This is so hardcore he's using HTML as PowerPoint

[ttdytiv]

Q&A

22:11 Are you using a standing desk?
51:38 Should one use the C Standard Library?
1:00:01 Can you use regex extraction instead?
1:10:06 Could you use a printf() trick instead?
1:18:56 Can you recommend some good programming books?
1:19:52 Why do you not cache stb_arr_len() when you're looping?
1:22:13 What other advice would you give yourself if you go back 25 years?
1:25:06 Have you used ImGUI?
1:25:44 If I wanted to have my own standard library, would you think that would be better than trying to have one standard library for everyone?
1:27:46 Do you routinely use polymorphism with void* and function pointers in your C programs?
1:29:42 Is stb_arr_len() safe?
1:34:42 Can you create a debug GL context in SDL2?
1:34:59 Is it slow to open the debug GL context through SDL2?
1:35:20 What are the more simple STB libraries for beginners to start playing with?
1:35:50 Don't you think it's a good idea to rewrite the tools incorporating new knowledge to make the most impact?
1:39:40 Do you think with enough STB-like libraries out there eventually that C would be more competitive with higher-level languages in the future?
1:42:46 Are you using MS Visual C++6 for your IDE?
1:43:02 Is it wise to play with STB by looking at the library code?
1:45:02 Would you consider a specific pull request?

1:45:15 [wrap up]

[JoeMarrero-manvscode]

I too found myself going back to C after many years of writing C++.

[notanotherreviewer.]

Never stop streaming, you're amazing.

[gregg]

Seeing him programming like this, making mistakes and so on, it makes me feel a lot better as a programmer. They all go through that, it's not just me.

[CNLohr]

YOU'RE THE GUY BEHIND STB? THANK YOU!!!!

[adama]

It's the current year, and I literally have a supercomputer. It's watercooled and spinup sounds like an aircraft carrier.

Yet, compiling takes longer than vs6.

[Muck-qyoo]

I think C is more straight forward than C++ and also more clear.

[asddsa]

Thanks a lot for this interesting video. Since the early 2017, I have switched to C for writing all my works and I am so happy about this decision I made. After 1 year, I wrote many C codes that are fast, easy to debug and very portable. I will never regret switching to C from all the interpreted languages or even C++.

[StevenSmith-qzzg]

Thank you! I learned quite a bit, especially about some of the meta-data behind programming at a lower level. One thing - the reason for doing this (making a video) is, at least for me, for those that always wanted to program, loved computers, were plenty into it, but didn't necessarily have the resources (friends, relatives, teachers, etc) to learn from in order to advance their knowledge. So what you're doing is awesome for those types (like myself..) :) Thank you! :D

[higor]

Hey Sean, this video will soon be 5 years old. Are there things you would like to add to it or that you now think differently about?

[MikaelIsaksson]

Finally someone who has been coding for longer than me :). Worth a sub to check out your content.

[Muskar]

The dynamic between what's good for small programs, through demos, betas and production is really interesting. Certainly agree that the only thing stopping people from using C more is the lack of public ecosystem (and the bad and outdated standard library). I think C is an incredibly powerful language in most of the regards people need.

[Ryan-xqkl]

If you make another video on coding tips I would totally watch, thanks for this

[anthonypacitto]

Love watching his streams and videos on programming. Super intelligent and always a fan of his fluent C work.

[santiagolerin]

This is one of the good ones. The algorithm takes me back here at least once every 6 months. Even though it's at least the sixth time, im watching again

[sortof]

omg, watching after 7 years. still very relavent and useful advice. :D

[littlecurrybread]

Looking glass one of the goat studios. Legendary

[christianantony]

using 1999 visual studio-"things, maybe they've gotten better... but you know... probably not." pure fucking aura man.

[RecycleBin]

the C standard library is probably the best library ive seen along with windows.h etc