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A concise, structured guide to the C programming language.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2025-10-02 · latest 2025-11-08

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  1. thanks, i enjoyed reading it (though a bit lengthy). what gets me personally is what you describe at https://github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-i... - zig is made to feel easy and modern for people who don't know any…
    comment by zobzu · 2025-11-08 · in Why is Zig so cool?
  2. I wonder if they are simply pasting your criticism into an AI prompt. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/349d475a5922cf005...
    comment by e2le · 2025-11-08 · in Zig is so cool, C is cooler
  3. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/aa7496f9ba58ac11a... just got updated with some clarity > *Some parts of this article were refined with help from LLMs to improve clarity and technical accuracy. These are just personal notes, but…
    comment by ramon156 · 2025-11-08 · in Zig is so cool, C is cooler
  4. Did you not even try the original command? As you've now updated it ( https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/43b0a89852a507bdd... ), it is definitely not one simple flag since arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc has to be installed from somewhere.…
    comment by 201984 · 2025-11-08 · in Zig is so cool, C is cooler
  5. They fixed this "mistake" a few minutes ago. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/43b0a89852a507bdd...
    comment by e2le · 2025-11-08 · in Zig is so cool, C is cooler
  6. Here is the link for you: https://github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-i... I hope next month I will have more time to write deep dives into the internals of SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis and maybe curl, all written in C.
    comment by tamnd · 2025-11-08 · in Why is Zig so cool?
  7. I have fixed some bugs here: https://github.com/little-book-of/c/pull/4 Let me carefully review all the code snippets, create tests, and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline to make sure everything is correct.
    comment by tamnd · 2025-10-05 · in Show HN: The Little Book of C
  8. …If you find any errors, please open an issue or submit a pull request, and I'm happy to fix them. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/pull/4 (for examples, this one) I know many of these books still need polishing (fixing bugs, improving…
    comment by tamnd · 2025-10-05 · in Show HN: The Little Book of C