From the perspective of this thread they’re probably similarly good and “deep”. My instinct would be to err away from anything object oriented for beginners since OOP has always felt a little cultish to me and I think it’s maybe something “shallow” (at least shallower than plain C) that has a habit of masquerading as the one true “deep” way to do programming.

C also has the practical advantage of being fucking everywhere.

Rust

I like Rust, but beyond the subset that is “ugly C” – using unsafe everywhere and eschewing like 90% of std – it’s definitely shallow.

“Responsible disclosure” is a term of art, I think that’s why they use the word there.

Great article. I’ve always been of the opinion that C should be one of, if not the, first things taught to programmers. You can explain Python in terms of C, but you can’t explain C in terms of Python.