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C vs Oh My ZSH: What are the differences?
What is C? One of the most widely used programming languages of all time. .
What is Oh My ZSH? A framework for managing your Zsh configuration. A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.
C belongs to "Languages" category of the tech stack, while Oh My ZSH can be primarily classified under "Shell Utilities".
Oh My ZSH is an open source tool with 91.5K GitHub stars and 17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Oh My ZSH's open source repository on GitHub.
Twitch, Blackfire.io, and OpenX are some of the popular companies that use C, whereas Oh My ZSH is used by SPiNNWERK, PlexChat, and Jelp App. C has a broader approval, being mentioned in 64 company stacks & 251 developers stacks; compared to Oh My ZSH, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
As a personal research project I wanted to add post-quantum crypto KEM (key encapsulation) algorithms and new symmetric crypto session algorithms to openssh. I found the openssh code and its channel/context management extremely complex.
Concurrently, I was learning Go. It occurred to me that Go's excellent standard library, including crypto libraries, plus its much safer memory model and string/buffer handling would be better suited to a secure remote shell solution. So I started from scratch, writing a clean-room Go-based solution, without regard for ssh compatibility. Interactive and token-based login, secure copy and tunnels.
Of course, it needs a proper security audit for side channel attacks, protocol vulnerabilities and so on -- but I was impressed by how much simpler a client-server application with crypto and complex terminal handling was in Go.
$ sloc openssh-portable
Languages Files Code Comment Blank Total CodeLns
Total 502 112982 14327 15705 143014 100.0%
C 389 105938 13349 14416 133703 93.5%
Shell 92 6118 937 1129 8184 5.7%
Make 16 468 37 131 636 0.4%
AWK 1 363 0 7 370 0.3%
C++ 3 79 4 18 101 0.1%
Conf 1 16 0 4 20 0.0%
$ sloc xs
Languages Files Code Comment Blank Total CodeLns
Total 34 3658 1231 655 5544 100.0%
Go 19 3230 1199 507 4936 89.0%
Markdown 2 181 0 76 257 4.6%
Make 7 148 4 50 202 3.6%
YAML 1 39 0 5 44 0.8%
Text 1 30 0 7 37 0.7%
Modula 1 16 0 2 18 0.3%
Shell 3 14 28 8 50 0.9%
Pros of C lang
- Performance69
- Low-level49
- Portability36
- Hardware level29
- Embedded apps19
- Pure13
- Performance of assembler9
- Ubiquity8
- Great for embedded6
- Old4
- Compiles quickly4
- No garbage collection to slow it down3
- OpenMP2
- Gnu/linux interoperable2
Pros of Oh My ZSH
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Cons of C lang
- Low-level5
- No built in support for parallelism (e.g. map-reduce)3
- Lack of type safety3
- No built in support for concurrency3
Cons of Oh My ZSH
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