[mparr4]

I'm in the same boat as you. I've been working through Learn C The Hard Way [1] as a way to learn some of these concepts. I've been finding it incredibly valuable/rewarding.

That said, even the author of LCTHW (Zed Shaw) recommends writing in languages other than C. He specifically mentions Go, Swift, and Rust.

Check out his rant on K&R C at the end of LCTHW for his thoughts on your question: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

[1]: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

[castell]

Weird rant. C is not dead, especially not for really low level high performance things. But Go/Rust/Swift are more modern and easier to use for some of C and many of C++ use cases.