C Programming Language's File API: A Technical Analysis of Memory-Mapped File Access
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maurycyz
A good honest bake. Not flashy, but you'll finish the whole bagel.
Summary
The article argues that C programming language has the best file API compared to other languages, claiming that most languages provide inferior versions of C's file handling. The author demonstrates how C allows files to be accessed similarly to memory using memory-mapped files, showing code examples with mmap() and file descriptors. The piece is a technical rant about programming language design, specifically criticizing how file operations are implemented in modern languages while praising C's approach as more elegant and consistent.
Key quotes
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In C, files can be accessed in the same way as memory.
In fact, what you get is usually a worse version of C.
It always feels a bit out of place... except in C.
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