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If you don't know what a love letter to C is, maybe you aren't the target demographic. That's fine, but there's no reason to get up in arms about it.

Perhaps you are too huffed up on your own farts (whatever that means) to realize this just isn’t for you, but for some reason, is living rent free in your head.

> I don't even know what a "love-letter to C" is

Oh come on, you've never done something just for the passion of it? Not trying to earn money or get famous, you just do something because you personally enjoy it with no other motivation than that.

Even if you haven't, a lot of people do stuff purely for their own personal satisfaction. That's what a "love letter to x" is. You just do it for the love.

We are going into a weekend, I challenge you to do something just for the love of it.

Code which achieves nothing is called "boilerplate" and I've yet to find anyone passionate about writing it. The joy of programming, to me at least, is solving problems. Hence code which does not solve problems is not enjoyable.