Started learning C a week ago!

Coming from the world of JS/TS, a low-level language seems daunting, but once you start to wrap your brain around concepts and how the code works, everything starts to make sense.

C gives you a lot more freedom compared to JavaScript. It actually lets you decide how you want to implement things. The fact that you’re not just an npm install away from installing any library to perform a specific task really forces you to write a lot more code yourself. But this is great since you actually start to understand how things work under the hood.

After implementing a couple of small applications like a CLI calculator, I wanted to work with HTTP servers — something Express (Node.js library) makes super easy to implement. However, when you want to do the same in a low-level language like C, it comes with its own set of challenges — from learning about TCP servers, sockets, and IPv4 addresses to dealing with Windows-specific APIs to interact with sockets. (Yup, I haven’t moved to Linux yet. :( )

Since I’m just starting, if you’re a seasoned C developer, please let me know where I might be lacking or what I should work on. I’m always up for a conversation on tech.

Attached is the codebase for a single-threaded HTTP server implemented in C, which only exposes a GET endpoint as of now! https://github.com/akshatg5/http-server-in-c