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 It is usually not considered an easy language to learn because of its low level nature: it requires good understanding of how a [computer](computer.md) actually works and doesn't prevent the programmer from shooting himself in the foot. Programmer is given full control (and therefore responsibility). There are things considered "tricky" which one must be aware of, such as undefined behavior of certain operators and raw pointers. This is what can discourage a lot of modern "coding monkeys" from choosing C, but it's also what inevitably allows such great performance -- undefined behavior allows the compiler to choose the most efficient implementation. On the other hand, C as a language is pretty simple without [modern](modern.md) bullshit concepts such as [OOP](oop.md), it is not as much hard to learn but rather hard to master, as any other true art.
 
+{ Though C is almost always compiled, there have appeared some C interpreters. ~drummyfish }
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 C is said to be a **"[portable](portability.md) [assembly](assembly.md)"** because of its low level nature, great performance etc. -- though C is structured (has control structures such as branches and loops) and can be used in a relatively high level manner, it is also possible to write assembly-like code that operates directly with bytes in memory through [pointers](pointer.md) without many safety mechanisms, so C is often used for writing things like hardware [drivers](driver.md). On the other hand some restrain from likening C to assembly because C compilers still perform many transformations of the code and what you write is not necessarily always what you get.
 
 Mainstream consensus acknowledges that C is among the best languages for writing low level code and code that requires performance, such as [operating systems](operating_system.md), [drivers](driver.md) or [games](game.md). Even scientific libraries with normie-language interfaces -- e.g. various [machine learning](machine_learning.md) [Python](python.md) libraries -- usually have the performance critical core written in [C](c.md). Normies will tell you that for things outside this scope C is not a good language, with which we disagree -- [we](lrs.md) recommend using C for basically everything that's supposed to last, i.e. if you want to write a good website, you should write it in C etc.
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 ## Compilers
 
-- [gcc](gcc.md): the main "big name" that can compile all kinds of languages including C, used by default in many places, very [bloated](bloat.md)
-- [clang](clang.md): another big bloated compiler, kind of competes with gcc
-- [tcc](tcc.md): tiny C compiler, [suckless](suckless.md), cannot optimize as well as the big compilers but is pretty elegant
-- [scc](scc.md): another small/suckless C compiler
+- [gcc](gcc.md): The main "big name" that can compile all kinds of languages including C, used by default in many places, very [bloated](bloat.md) and can take long to compile big programs, but is pretty good at [optimizing](optimization.md) the code and generating fast code. Also has number of frontends and can compile for many platforms. Uses GENERIC/GIMPLE [intermediate representation](intermediate_representation.md).
+- [clang](clang.md): Another big bloated compiler, kind of competes with gcc, is similarly good at optimization etc. Uses [LLVM](llvm.md) intermediate representation.
+- [tcc](tcc.md): Tiny C compiler, [suckless](suckless.md), orders of magnitude smaller (currently around 25 KLOC) and simpler than gcc and clang, cannot optimize nearly as well as the big compilers so the generated executables can be a bit slower and bigger, however besides its internal simplicity there are many advantages, mainly e.g. fast compilation (claims to be 9 times faster than gcc) and small tcc executable (about 100 kB). Seems to only support x86.
+- [scc](scc.md): Another small/suckless C compiler, currently about 30 KLOC.
 - [8c](8c.md), [8cc](8cc.md)
 - ...
 
 ## Standard Library
 
-Besides the pure C language the C standard specifies a set of [libraries](library.md) that have to come with a standard-compliant C implementation -- so called standard library. This includes e.g. the *stdio* library for performing standard [input/output](io.md) (reading/writing to/from screen/files) or the *math* library for mathematical functions. It is usually relatively okay to use these libraries as they are required by the standard to exist so the [dependency](dependency.md) they create is not as dangerous, however many C implementations aren't completely compliant with the standard and may come without the standard library. So for sake of [portability](portability.md) it is best if you can avoid using standard library.
+Besides the pure C language the C standard specifies a set of [libraries](library.md) that have to come with a standard-compliant C implementation -- so called standard library. This includes e.g. the *stdio* library for performing standard [input/output](io.md) (reading/writing to/from screen/files) or the *math* library for mathematical functions. It is usually relatively okay to use these libraries as they are required by the standard to exist so the [dependency](dependency.md) they create is not as dangerous, however many C implementations aren't completely compliant with the standard and may come without the standard library. Also many stdlib implementations suck or you just can't be sure what the implementation will prefer (size? speed?) etc. So for sake of [portability](portability.md) it is best if you can avoid using standard library.
 
-The standard library (libc) is a subject of live debate because while its interface and behavior are given by the C standard, its implementation is a matter of each compiler; since the standard library is so commonly used, we should take great care in assuring it's extremely well written. As you probably guessed, the popular implementations ([glibc](glibc.md) et al) are [bloat](bloat.md). Better alternatives thankfully exist, such as:
+The standard library (libc) is a subject of live debate because while its interface and behavior are given by the C standard, its implementation is a matter of each compiler; since the standard library is so commonly used, we should take great care in assuring it's extremely well written, however we ALWAYS have to choose our priorities and make tradeoffs, there just mathematically CANNOT be an ultimate implementation that will be all extremely fast and extremely memory efficient and extremely portable and extremely small. So choosing your C environment usually comprises of choosing the C compiler and the stdlib implementation. As you probably guessed, the popular implementations ([glibc](glibc.md) et al) are [bloat](bloat.md) and also often just [shit](shit.md). Better alternatives thankfully exist, such as:
 
 - [musl](musl.md)
 - [uclibc](uclibc.md)
 - [not using](dependency.md) the standard library :)
+- ...
 
 ## Bad Things About C