> C can teach you useful things, like how memory is a huge array of bytes, but you can also learn that without writing C programs. People say, C teaches you about memory allocation. Yes it does, but you can learn what that means as a concept without learning a programming language.

The problem with those takes is that it always come from the people that already know it and had a lot of baggage that distorts it’s view that no one else should learn.

Due to several reasons I always worked with high level languages and last year I started to learn C and C++ and how beautiful was to know exactly how are you allocating resources in your application that I felt quite good programming mentally and intellectually.

When you come from a world of resource overprovisioning (CPU, memory) when you start to get your head about those languages that puts performance first, you feel good about it in the first moment but in the second after you feel that your whole experience was subpar due to lack of a thought process.