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Ask HN: Which systems programming language(s) is/are beginner friendly?
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#2The first two things that come to mind are Python and Go.
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#3Excel formulas probably have more beginner-level users than anything else.
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#4Depends a lot on what you call "system": do you want to program embedded systems? write device drivers? write a database server? compilers?
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#5Plain old C is pretty beginner friendly. Programming an Arduino is a good introduction (similar to C, forgive me I'm a bit ignorant here). A good systems project would be writing a simple shell.
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#6Excel formulas probably have more beginner-level users than anything else.
Is Excel a systems programming language :)
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#7Depends a lot on what you call "system": do you want to program embedded systems? write device drivers? write a database server? compilers?
What if a programmer wants to lean a language and not a domain? Devoid of domain, which systems programming language is easy for beginners? It will be quite an ask of a beginner to either work on embedded systems, write device driver, DB driver or compiler. So for beginners, forcing a domain from the start would be counter productive I think.
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#8Disclaimer: Never did any sys programming
I think C is pretty friendly as long as you can get through the basics of arrays and pointers. It's friendly in the sense that there is not a lot of grammar to learn.
But each field of system programming requires a deep understanding of something other than the language itself so overall I'd say it's difficult to get in.
Re: Ask HN: Which systems programming language(s) is/are beginner friendly?
#9Excel formulas probably have more beginner-level users than anything else.
Is Excel a systems programming language :)
Re: Ask HN: Which systems programming language(s) is/are beginner friendly?
#10Excel formulas probably have more beginner-level users than anything else.
Is Excel a systems programming language :)
Sure, it's where you write the high-level orchestration code for things that haven't been made sufficiently repeatable yet. :)
Personally I tend to use it for light one-off database metaprogramming. Get a lit of objects that need to be maintenanced, generate the appropriate commands with a column of identical formulas, and then paste that back into the sql utility. (For more complex or long-lived things I'll use a more traditional language of course.)
(Why yes, I am going to pretend I didn't accidentally a word.)