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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 better, and it does this well. But as soon as you actually need to do complex stuff, it gets in the way moreso than C and it's current environment/ecosystem will. And to be fair, as much as I enjoyed writing in C in my younger years - I only use C when I actually need C. And asm when I actually need asm. Most of my code now uses higher level languages - this puts zig into such a niche.. it feels like golang to me: the cool language that isn't really solving as much of a need as you'd think.

I wonder if they are simply pasting your criticism into an AI prompt. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/349d475a5922cf005...

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 I would really appreciate feedback: feel free to share your thoughts, open an issue, or send a pull request!*

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. It doesn't exist in a default installation of GCC that only targets the host, and you'll need to install a GCC version for every architecture you want to target.

They fixed this "mistake" a few minutes ago. https://github.com/little-book-of/c/commit/43b0a89852a507bdd...

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.

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.

I've been preparing these notes for 20 years, and now it's finally time to put them online. Please judge them by their content, not by whether they were "LLM-assisted" or not. All the books are licensed under CC-BY-SA, and I intend to keep sharing more with the community free of charge. 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 wording, etc.), but I'm glad that some people already find them helpful. It really saddens me when people dismiss the project as just "AI slop." I've poured a lot of time and care into it.