--- title: Should you learn C in 2020/2021? | daily.dev description: Eric Qvarnström writes a paper about why you should learn C and the benefits of doing so. C is an old language, to be formal, it appeared the first time in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/should-you-learn-c-in-2020-2021--bzvnz88tw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Should you learn C in 2020/2021? | daily.dev og:description: Eric Qvarnström writes a paper about why you should learn C and the benefits of doing so. C is an old language, to be formal, it appeared the first time in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/should-you-learn-c-in-2020-2021--bzvnz88tw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BZvnz88tW.png og:image:alt: Should you learn C in 2020/2021? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Should you learn C in 2020/2021? **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 12 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Eric Qvarnström writes a paper about why you should learn C and the benefits of doing so. C is an old language, to be formal, it appeared the first time in 1972. Despite its age, the language is still widely used today because of its power and ease of use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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