A programmer reflects on why marketing C3 as a "C alternative" was misleading. Having experienced rapid development with procedural languages like Turbo Pascal and PHP, they realized OOP's requirement for upfront architecture actually slows development compared to C with modern conveniences like arena allocators and dynamic arrays.
C3 Playground is a browser-based C3 compiler that enables users to write and compile C3 code with integrated graphics and sound capabilities. The platform provides a web IDE with source code editing, console output display, and customizable compiler flags for direct compilation control.