What can I do in C that I can't do in Java?
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What can I do in C that I can't do in Java?
Real programming
>>51868162
ANAL SEX
Nothing but prepare yourself for a shitstorm of inane replies like "hurr its faster" or "durr the code is more beautiful and elegant"
There's literally no reason to not use high level languages in 2015
>>51868212
/thread
>>51868162
Why use anything else than C?
>>51868162
OS level shit.
Embedded shit.
weird shit.
>>51868162
Literally any OS worth a shit has C code in it.
>>51868212
>There's literally no reason to not use high level languages in 2015
This, since LLVM make your code still work fast and stay portability.
>>51868162
I mean C is a better language (objectively), but as other anons have said, in 2015 with all the goodness of compilers and shit now the differences in speed are pretty unnoticeable.
>>51868162
embedded systems, drivers, kernel, bios, and gaymen
pointers
>>51868162
write low level code for embedded systems
>>51868911
Does "pointers" simply mean more effective memory management?
>>51869003
i dont know what youre getting at but i like the freedom of doing whatever i want to memory
im the programmer and i run the place and i use the memory however i please to
>>51868162
>c is faster than java
>many micro controllers use c
>system programming
>>51868162
>what can i do in turing complete language A vs turing complete language B?
sasuga java advocate.
>>51868162
Show off on /g/
>Rewrite your own stack while inflight b/c loljk
>Arrays? We don't have those where we're going!
>Manually manage your own memory, because despite advances in modern technology you are still in fact a special snowflake who's smarter then *da puter*.
>Spend 8 hours writing your own string implementation, because while GNU's *works* it doesn't *work everywhere*.
>Spend 12 hours writing your own hash table implementation
>Spend 240 hours writing your own concurrent hash table implementation
>Spend 8000 hours writing your own cache pre-fetch module.
