C

C is minimal, fast and close to the hardware. Unix, Linux, Windows and most modern languages were built on it. It gives total control over memory, with the responsibility that entails.

• Creado por Dennis Ritchie
• Año 1972
• Paradigma: Procedural · compiled
• Extensiones: .c, .h

Para qué se usa

• Operating systems
• Drivers & embedded
• Compilers

A favor

• Extreme speed
• Total memory control
• Portable & universal

En contra

• Manual memory management
• Unsafe if careless
• No modern abstractions

Ecosistema

• GCC
• Clang
• Make
• CMake
• GDB
• glibc

Ejemplo

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  printf("¡Hola, mundo!\n");
  return 0;
}