8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is it neat? You betcha! Vimscript itself was ...

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...

Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

This week, Lita announced the alpha release of its Valida zkVM and Valida C Compiler Toolchain, enabling faster and more efficient zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation. The Valida C Compiler ...

One of the key benefits of the C language, which is the reason it is so popular for embedded applications, is that it is a high-level, structured programming language, but has low-level capabilities.

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

Today, the US Department of Energy announced that it had established a partnership with Nvidia that would be enhancing the LLVM compiler collection. The goal will be to port an existing Fortran ...