lets-discuss-3-July

Lets Discuss
Practical Uses of C
3rd July, 2021

Introductory Question:
    > About Yourself
    > Something you want to learn more about? ( It can be anything, tech/non-tech )
    
Let's finally discuss about C!!!

In short: We never know why we learning about C, so here we are discussing why!!

Aksh:
    https://github.com/metacall
    Function as a service
    API request to github api using C, cz college can be stubborn about it - Jasmine
    TLDR - College projects are irritating but you can make them fun
    
Barun:
    https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
    GUI - most linux tools based on it
    
Rudraksh:
    Assembler - noice fun starter personal project
    NAND 2 Tetris Course - https://www.nand2tetris.org/
    
Aaryan:
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9IEJIKnBJjH_zM5LnovnoaKlXML5qh17
    https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c
    webserver using sockets in c
    
Shivam:
    Curiosity Rover - 500000 lines in C
    https://vimeo.com/84991949 - Mars code
    
Arvind:
    C++ program to count freq of whatsapp chats :P
    
Ankur:
    Raspi bootloader
    
Geetansh:
    Embedded Systems - ARM cortex - Device drivers for ARM microcontrollers
    Prevalent usecase of C
    MISRA C - Updated coding standards
    
// it's not as outdated as college makes it out to be
    
Arpit:
    Arcade Game - Tic Tac Toe, Roulette, Hangman
    
// Games can be a fun way to start with out

Unreal Engine - Famous Games made using C++ - PUBG, Valo

Making a game engine in C -> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dC-V-N3m0Go4deliWHPFwT

Dynamic Languages - have there compilers/interpreters in C
https://github.com/python/cpython

The browser engine v8 is written in C++ https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git
Spidermonkey(c, c++, js and rust)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/266235/isnt-there-a-chicken-and-egg-issue-since-gcc-is-written-in-c-itself
Basically, there exists, somewhere, a minimal C codebase to build a version of GCC that's capable of building the current GCC codebase. Self-hosting languages have been doing things like that for decades.

Suryashankar:
    GTK in C ( wrapped with rust in gtk 4)
    GNOME Mutter in C - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter
    
Finally talking about the OG - Linux
Few folks conitrbuting, feel free to reach out to them on chat
https://systemd.io/

Topic Suggestions for Next Meetup:
    JS
    Cryptography
    Security
    Game Engines
    ARM vs x86 vs RiscV