21st Century C: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814493...

From various discussions on Hn, I think the consensus is most people really like k&r as a technical book (it's concise, clear and a fun read) - but everyone working with C says its a terrible book for learning modern C.

I tried to refresh my memory from previous threads, and I think the general trend has been to recommend (as seen in sibling comments):

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/

https://nostarch.com/Effective_C

I've also seen the older:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814493...

Mentioned.

There's also Architecture of Open Source Applications, which can help with starting to read some larger code bases, some of which are in C: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

And there's a general recommendation to go read the source code of the Redis cache/db.

Finally i came across a mention of this short article on gdb (nb: mention of TUI text ui should probably have been in the top, not a foot note):

https://www.recurse.com/blog/5-learning-c-with-gdb

I feel I'm missing a book that has come up often, but can't think of which one.

I did like zed Shaws learn c the hard way, but I'm afraid it's getting a bit long in the tooth: https://learncodethehardway.org/c/

I highly recommend "21st Century C" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do) as a tour of modern C programming, including use of C99 features. It goes over C tooling (profiling, debugging, testing, cross-platform deployment), and explores C99.

there is also 21st Century C: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do

half of it is about tools (valgrind, make, autoconf) and it also talks about libraries (sqlite, gsl, etc...) of course there are some chapters about the language itself

There's 21st Century C from O'Reilly:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do

It has mixed reviews - my impression from reading it was that if you agree with the author's choice of tools, it's a good read. There's supposedly a new edition coming out in September.

There's also Learn C the Hard Way:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

I've struggled to find any other modern books on C programming.

Reminded me of a very good book called "21st Century C"

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do

It's been a while since I used C very much, but news like this plus the great new 21st Century C, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do from Ben Klemens and O'Reilly has me reconsidering that. That book says those who complain the standard doesn't do enough should look at POSIX and libraries like GLib for help.

When I look at the page of the book itself

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do?intcmp=il-c...

what I noticed was

> Use Autotools, C’s de facto cross-platform package manager.

Seeing the word "autotools" sends familiar, but scary shiver down my spine. After some years with maven and CPAN, I don't ever want to go back to autotools, no thanks.

I just ordered it 2 days ago directly from O'Reilly website (they currently have "buy 2 get 1 free" promotion, just use code OPC10, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do). Really excited to read it when it comes. In case you're curious the other 2 books I ordered were "Python for Data Analysis" and "JavaScript Web Applications" which also look very promising.

Edit: Sorry, not a referral link.

On O'reilly - ebooks minus the DRM - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do

O'Reilly has a forthcoming book 21st Century C[1] by Ben Klements. I haven't read it yet, but it clearly aims to be a new look at C programming.

[1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do