As far as books go; K&R contains a lot of wisdom despite it's apparent simplicity; and the language hasn't really changed that much since last edition. But to a

As far as books go; K&R contains a lot of wisdom despite it's apparent simplicity; and the language hasn't really changed that much since last edition. But to answer some of your questions: CMake is by far the most convenient build tool I've come across for C so far, the link below will give you an idea of how it looks. I find linters mostly a waste of time , but I run all my tests through valgrind before committing; I don't miss programming in C without valgrind at all; it's also an excellent profiler in combination with KCacheGrind. For testing, simple functions and bit of macro magic on top goes pretty far; C programmers tend to value simplicity, you won't find that many epic unit testing adventure frameworks out there. clang or gcc doesn't really matter, I prefer clang's error messages; and both support GNU extensions, which solve most of the boring problems with coding in C. https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/CMakeLists....