Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 17 minutes ago
In today's episode, we welcome Low Level Learning, a fellow programmer and content creator. With over 500k subscribers and his own course where he teaches low level programming topics, he came on the podcast to talk about what he knows most: C, low level concepts, AI, as well as share some of his own developer experiences and preferences that he garnered over the years.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Low Level Learning’s Twitter/X: twitter.com/LowLevelTweets
Low Level Learning's Youtube: @LowLevelTV
Low Level Learning's Twitch: twitch.tv/LowLevelLearning
Low Level Academy: https://lowlevel.academy/
Timestmaps:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Who is Low Level Learning?
01:34 C is a High Level Language
02:47 Is C lower level than Rust or Zig?
04:33 Front-end vs Back-end, which is harder?
06:34 The Boot.dev stack
07:11 The Low Level Academy stack
07:59 Low Level Academy
09:56 Project-based learning
12:18 sqlc
14:44 How do you debug C?
17:26 Fuzzing Harness vs Unit Testing
22:28 Favorite Feature of C
23:45 If you could change one thing in C, what would it be?
26:53 Where do C programmers work?
29:16 The White House and Garbage Collectors
31:19 What is a side-channel attack?
33:56 Power side-channel attack
35:41 Side-channel attack on boot.dev
37:08 What tooling does Low Level Learning use to write C?
43:59 How do you deal with the lack of a package manager?
48:12 Opinion on statically compiled and dynamic libraries
50:36 Where to find Low Level Learning
In today's episode, we welcome Low Level Learning, a fellow programmer and content creator. With over 500k subscribers and his own course where he teaches low level programming topics, he came on the podcast to talk about what he knows most: C, low level concepts, AI, as well as share some of his own developer experiences and preferences that he garnered over the years.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Low Level Learning’s Twitter/X: twitter.com/LowLevelTweets
Low Level Learning's Youtube: @LowLevelTV
Low Level Learning's Twitch: twitch.tv/LowLevelLearning
Low Level Academy: https://lowlevel.academy/
Timestmaps:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Who is Low Level Learning?
01:34 C is a High Level Language
02:47 Is C lower level than Rust or Zig?
04:33 Front-end vs Back-end, which is harder?
06:34 The Boot.dev stack
07:11 The Low Level Academy stack
07:59 Low Level Academy
09:56 Project-based learning
12:18 sqlc
14:44 How do you debug C?
17:26 Fuzzing Harness vs Unit Testing
22:28 Favorite Feature of C
23:45 If you could change one thing in C, what would it be?
26:53 Where do C programmers work?
29:16 The White House and Garbage Collectors
31:19 What is a side-channel attack?
33:56 Power side-channel attack
35:41 Side-channel attack on boot.dev
37:08 What tooling does Low Level Learning use to write C?
43:59 How do you deal with the lack of a package manager?
48:12 Opinion on statically compiled and dynamic libraries
50:36 Where to find Low Level Learning
