[thelogos]

Personally, the hardest part for me was keeping track of the size of everything. Coming from a higher level language, keeping track of the bits and bytes takes some getting used to. Working with arrays in C is much tougher especially when the compiler will compile almost anything you give it, and even a small mistake is catastrophic.

Before C, I was pampered and took everything for granted. Now I appreciated my life more after C and feel blessed every time my IDE gives me a warning.

[fr0styMatt2]

My pet hate is #include files. The whole way that C handles multiple source files just seems archaic to me, having worked in higher-level languages. I wish C had a proper package system that was standard, so I don't have to mess around with things like include file path order (or my favorite, the C++ template definitions having to be in the header files thing I only recently learned about).

[NhanH]

Interestingly, I first started with C (although I haven't written a line of C code for a long time), and when I first move to higher-level languages, I dislike the fact that I have no idea where the file I just imported is. Moreso when I'm playing with obscure/ new language: if I can just import whatever files I wanted (rather than at package level), it seems that would be much easier to hack on the language/std itself.

[pjc50]

I have no idea where the file I just imported is

A sufficiently long include path can give you this problem anyway. I recently tripped over this when I created a "reason.h" and discovered that Windows had a file of the same name deep inside MFC.

[fao_]

I recently tripped over this when I created a "reason.h" and discovered that Windows had a file of the same name deep inside MFC.

It is my understanding that that would be solved by placing your file in a local directory called 'inc/' and having:

  #include "inc/reason.h" 

instead of:

  #include <reason.h>

(or just replacing "" with <>). But I have never programmed in VSC before, so I may be wrong.

[ZanyProgrammer]

I don't quite get this lament about being pampered in higher level languages. To me, it feels like someone saying they feel pampered for having indoor plumbing or running water.

[pjmlp]

Other systems programming languages e.g. Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, ... you don't have to track everything if you don't want to.

[benwaffle]

be sure to compile with -Wall -Wextra