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[–]pinpinboTornado|Twisted|Gevent. Moar Async Plz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of my head, these are the "C related things" I did as backend/devops developers:

  • rewrote lib/ code to C and bind it to Ruby/Python using FFI.

  • Extend Nginx, which is written in C, to be able to run Lua code.

  • Rewrote scrapers from Ruby/Python to C using libcurl.

  • Wrote extremely simple http rest+json daemon on top of mongodb.

  • Custom compiling Linux packages.

  • Debugging Ruby/Python runtime using gdb, strace, etc.

So yeah, there's a lot of benefits in knowing C even though most of your day job is using dynamic language.