Message: Hey guys, love the show, except for the usual pro-freedom-hating-GPU stuff :P

I've been working my way through learning the basics of C with K&R's ANSI C 2nd edition, and was just wondering about what direction you'd recommend I take as far as resources to further develop my skills once I get a better handle on C.

I know that it's been pretty popular lately to say that C is dead and it shouldn't be used because of all the effort needed to make it thread and memory safe, but it's pretty obvious that it's not going away any time soon. Apparently Rust is the go-to right now, but I must've missed past coverage on its pro's and cons.

I've had some experience with C++ and Java (seriously, fsck Java), but never really got into something like I have with C, I love the concept of low level languages and the language giving you the ability to do stupid things as a way to let you solve problems in ways that the people that wrote the language didn't intend to be possible. It's also pretty great to accidentally find out you've written something so poorly it's got built-in stack-smashing and other vulnerabilities, though I've got a feeling that's possible in other languages too.

Any direction or advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated, just trying to hack my way into being able to do something useful without it being a total catastrophe or copy-paste job from stackoverflow.
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