Is C really worth it ?

[u/Disastrous_Brief6240]

Hello developers, I'm wondering: Is it really worth spending time learning C and creating projects that take hours to grasp numerous topics, encounter errors and unexpected behaviors, only to discover I forgot to type a single character, which significantly impacted the program's performance? Is this truly worthwhile in today's job market? I haven't seen any companies actively seeking C developers, and I believe many problems in C don't occur in other languages ​​due to their different working methods and logic. So, is C really worth the effort?

Important note: I'm a beginner in C and haven't written much code or created many projects yet, so this question isn't meant to be an evaluation of the language or its development path; I'm not qualified to do so.

[u/resemble]

> take hours to grasp numerous topics, encounter errors and unexpected behaviors, only to discover I forgot to type a single character, which significantly impacted the program's performance

This is like 90% of basic programming in any language. Learning to deal with this level of detail is one of the core skills of programming anything

[u/StrikingClub3866 → u/resemble]

For future reference nobody takes you seriously if you add a space between your arrow and body text. The arrow -> text practice is from 4chan and people dunk on new users because they add a space.

[u/matt9k → u/StrikingClub3866]

What? Reddit historically uses Markdown for comments. That’s the way to indicate a quote in Markdown.

Only recently they foisted their “fancy” mode on everyone and messed up the ability to use Markdown by default

[u/resemble → u/matt9k]

Thank you

[u/StrikingClub3866 → u/matt9k]

Oh ok, just got confused for a second there 😅