Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "C in 100 Seconds" video.

@alexeynezhdanov2362 As a C# dev...no you don't. I routinely have trouble where I can't find anyone on my team who knows whether the performance of a LINQ statement will be better written one way over another, for example. In that environment, performance almost never comes up in consideration, it's all about how clear and maintainable the code is, and if it follows a set of arbitrary style guidelines that are defined vaguely enough no one can agree on (or even really cares) what they mean. Java's the same way...and when you add in front-end web development and consider a lot of backend stuff is written on the assumption that microservices or other tech magic will do all the optimization you need (I mean, to be fair most of the time is spent executing web calls anyway), that's a sizeable chunk of the industry that doesn't require any low-level knowledge for better or for worse.
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@carltone My reply was in response to a comment regarding, and I quote, "almost(?) every language". My point was precisely that various commonly-used languages today are designed specifically to hide the exact implementation going on under the hood, I believe in an attempt to facilitate and encourage keeping "cleaner" codebases.
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Not quite, he missed out on bitfields, several of the keywords (static, register, inline, volatile...depending on C version), and completely omitted mention of the CPP which is pretty important to say the least. Also, he didn't mention all the datatypes, nor go into some of the more complex topics like integer promotion, which overflows are undefined behavior and which are defined, and the challenges of having potentially different byte sizes on different platforms.
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