No offense, and God forbid I sound like a "fanboy" but I'd highly recommend using Rust or Zig instead of c for the rest of your project. I appreciate C and assembly and am pretty "conservative" in my choices of PL but both rust and zig, despite having their own disadvantages, and also a slightly unpleasant community based on where you come from, are actually plain better than C in every respect. The abstractions are 0 cost and often pretty "transparent" so you know exactly what's happening behind the scenes.
I disagree. Rust and Zig bring millions of lines of code of dependencies and complexity in their toolchains. We can hope for a relatively simple Zig compiler someday, but probably not Rust. If you care about portability (now and in the future), C is a much better choice.
Fair point on toolchain complexity and portability, C's minimalism there is genuinely hard to beat. But it's a tradeoff: you're trading toolchain simplicity for the burden of manually ensuring memory safety. Depends on whether your priority is long-term portability or correctness guarantees.
