Tue 19 Jan 2021 04:27:26 PM EST
C is the language of unix.
As of 2021, maybe GCC.
Clang was better for a period, but Clang’s gains seem to have shocked GCC into catching up and may surpassing Clang.
Both are good.
The licensing differs, so that may affect your choice.
The whereis command finds source files, not just binaries.
🐚 ~ $ whereis utmpx.h
utmpx: /usr/include/utmpx.h /usr/share/man/man5/utmpx.5.gz
🐚 ~ $ man 3 getutxent
🐚 ~ $ man 2 syscalls
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/
The cppreference is available offline as Debian package that can be read in the Devhelp utility.
🐚 ~ $ sudo apt install cppreference-doc-en-html devhelp