Comment by techbrovanguard
7 hours ago
> C is an abstraction of the machine, so thin it's nearly transparent.
Looks like someone fell for the C abstract machine trap yet again. No, C is isn’t an abstraction of the machine.
7 hours ago
> C is an abstraction of the machine, so thin it's nearly transparent.
Looks like someone fell for the C abstract machine trap yet again. No, C is isn’t an abstraction of the machine.
C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.
https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479
As a corollary, all processors are C VMs, anyway.
It may not be an abstraction of a real machine. But the C abstract machine is very close to the foundational idea of how a computer work. And it’s quite easy to bootstrap.
Importantly my work involves me often being able to look at C and think about the assembly and back and I regularly work on ESP32, ch42(riscv) and atmega avr8.
I couldn't do that with mciropython on any platform.
C is a thin abstraction, python isn't.