Rediscovering C: Finding Excitement Beyond the Usual Tech Content

Lately, I’ve found myself running out of topics that genuinely interest me when it comes to software architecture, infrastructure, and related areas. Most of the content I come across feels repetitive and doesn’t add much value—it’s often the same ideas being recycled in different words.

Despite having studied C during my time at university, I decided to dive deeper into the language. I believe that low-level knowledge is essential for any developer, and C offers a unique perspective that higher-level languages often abstract away.

What really reignited my interest in C were the YouTube channels of Nic Barker and Tsoding Daily. Their content exposed me to topics I hadn’t encountered in college, such as advanced pointer usage, custom allocators, memory arenas, and asynchronous programming with libuv, among others.

Sometimes, I even catch myself wanting to implement everything in C, instead of reaching for more modern languages like Rust. There’s something about the simplicity and directness of C that keeps drawing me back.

In the end, I’ve always enjoyed programming in C, but now I’m rediscovering aspects of the language I never knew existed—and that’s been genuinely exciting.