eth is having congestion issues due to surge in transactions. since etc is of the same code, any updates with the dev re: preventing the same issue in etc?
I don't think ETC has made update the code, we must wait and see what will happen with the blockchain of ethereum.
So that will happen to ETC as well?
I think no, ethereum's problem of network will not happen to ETC here some reasons
Emerald Wallet
Dapp SDK (based on Emerald Project)
Standalone & embeddable EVM (with debugger for EVM code)
Light client for IoT and Mobile
Scalability improvement and sharding (towards to 1,000+ tx/sec)http://www.etcdevteam.com/roadmap.html