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This is a short note about my experience with C.

I've previously written about how I feel that C slow me down. Partly because it is a lower-level language than I'm used to. Partly because I don't know it that well.

But yesterday when I worked on rlworkbench I felt that making a change was not that hard. It might even have felt slightly easier.

This feels like a breakthrough for me in my C journey. Perhaps I've learned C well enough for it to not be in my way? Perhaps I've got enough primitives implemented so that I can do some high level programming without more effort? Perhaps the C programming paradigm is more productive? I don't know. But I'm starting to like C more and more.

2026-07-29 week 31

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I'm Rickard Lindberg from Sweden. This is my home on the web. I like programming. I like both the craft of it and also to write software that solves problems. I also like running.

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