Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...

Writing software in C that is portable and reusable is quickly becoming a critical activity in the world of embedded software. But portable C Code doesn’t happen by accident; it requires intent and ...

[Editor's note: Part 2 of this series shows how to optimize DSP “kernels,” i.e., inner loops. For more programming tips, see the DSP programmer’s guide.] DSP applications typically have tough ...

How do I learn the C programming language on my Apple Mac? The C programming language has been around since the 1970s, but it has never gone out of style, and learning C is one of the best computer ...

Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

As I'm spending some time back in the land of low-level C, I'm trying to fully get my head around best-practices for header files and code organization, so I thought I'd toss out some questions. (NOTE ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...