This is timely! I never really learned C deeply (other than from a class in high school where pointers were considered 'too advanced'...so we didn't really get too far).
I decided to work on this year's Advent of Code in C and it's been a blast so far. I finally "get" pointers, malloc/free, etc. (and I have a newfound appreciation for Ruby things like CSV.each).
Since most of my coding work is at a much much higher level (web backend & frontend stuff), I probably won't spend too much time in C in the regular course of business, but it's massively helped me better have an intuitive understanding of previously vague things like "allocate on the stack vs. heap" and "pass by reference vs. value" -- I knew what those words all meant but didn't really have a feel for what they actually did. C helps with that.
I decided to work on this year's Advent of Code in C and it's been a blast so far. I finally "get" pointers, malloc/free, etc. (and I have a newfound appreciation for Ruby things like CSV.each).
Since most of my coding work is at a much much higher level (web backend & frontend stuff), I probably won't spend too much time in C in the regular course of business, but it's massively helped me better have an intuitive understanding of previously vague things like "allocate on the stack vs. heap" and "pass by reference vs. value" -- I knew what those words all meant but didn't really have a feel for what they actually did. C helps with that.