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Hi gang! I know there are some incorrectitudes in there around the inline part of the guide... but if you find others, I'd really appreciate emails or GitHub issues or PRs.

The goal is to have a comprehensive, free, zero ads or tracking, up-to-date guide to C that fits between cppreference and other higher-level books. Target audience is college students who suddenly have to learn C for their OS or Networking course. :)

I also haven't put any C23 stuff in there yet, but that's on deck. I have until December, right? ;)

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Just wanted to throw out a thank you.

Your guide was one of the first 'serious' programming material I was exposed to, close to 20 years ago.

Let's just say it was immensely helpful, and I might not be where I am now, without it.

Thanks a lot for your networking materials. 10 years ago it got me through a hard networking course in university and it showed me how good teaching materials could be. I'm not programming C professionally but your stuff made me a better programmer.

while you're here, I'm seizing this opportunity to thank you for that wchar_t section, it really is good work.

As for C23, quality takes time :)

That was the second-hardest part to write (behind atomics). Glad to hear it's useful, for sure.

I envy modern languages that were able to simple shrug their shoulders of decades of history and declare "UTF-8 everywhere!"

Even those languages have to contend with win32 utf16 conventions anyways I suppose

Thanks, Beej! Your guide was really influential for me when I was a young kid in the early 2000s! I was really into MUDs back then and mate a few toy engines using the things I learned in your guide as a basis! Funny thing, I learned years later we lived in the same town at the time. The internet is big and small at the same time.

you are legend!

thank you so much for your work!

the socket guide was my home page for like 10 years :)

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