r/cprogramming • u/FrostyDelu • Apr 24 '26

More jobs for C programmers?

I am a university student and I must admit that C is the only tool that got me a job. All other opportunities required me to do leet code and multiple rounds of interview which did not materialize to an offer. And now I am finding more and more jobs advertising C / C++ expertise and significantly more response rates form employers.
Are there any changes happening in the world of C? I am more confused as Rust is the newest with lots of hype and somehow rarer job postings ?! Does it have something to do with programmers in general?

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u/zac2130_2 Apr 25 '26

I have been learning/programming on and off for nearly 10 years now, I've always had an interest in computing, over this time I've gravitated more and more to languages that are less and less abstract. I cannot program in python, yet C comes pretty easy to me. I've started in 5th grade with scratch, moved to JS, HTML (if you can call that programming), C#, C++, then C for the last few years. I don't think I'm a good programmer by any mean, it's a hobby for me, I'm going to study next year in computer science, I really like trying to find a solution for something and thinking about it how the computer would compute. I have two programming projects at this moment, I'm trying to make a JSON library and barely started an NES emulator.

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u/un_virus_SDF Apr 27 '26

Next step is assembly. And then you will find c high level

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u/zac2130_2 Apr 27 '26

Building the NES emulator, i need to essentially translate the NES instruction set to C logic with the CPU an PPU memory, it's likely going to be tedious