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Comment by nikki93 | Hacker News Reader

Probably aboard the "hate on C" hype train. If you are curious, it could make sense to not let it get in your way, and continue investigating / learning. There's a lot to be gained from such an exercise.

FWIW if you're looking for practical projects; part III of https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html is in C, and if you're interested in graphics stuff SDL is really fun. It all runs in the web / browser too with Webassembly.

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Oh cool, that's really neat! Thank you for sharing

Who knows? Maybe I'm a C greybeard and the culture I worked in was one where you can laugh at yourself and your work without feeling like everything has to be so serious all the time.

Refusing to explain in-jokes, even when explicitly asked, is exclusionary and insular, and leads to low influx of new people, resulting in a slow death of a community. A culture, if it wants to survive, must share itself freely to new potential members.

Humor doesn't have to be obvious to be good; and a magician doesn't have to ever give away the secrets of their illusions, no matter how loudly their audience cries out.

But I'm terribly sorry if you didn't get it. Just a simple play on words. It's certainly not insular or community destroying - an accusation like that is simply hyperbolic. Perhaps like most living things, growth only comes when there's opportunity to being tested and stressed.

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