polonius-rex

you have as much agency over being born with “a magic power greater than any special” and being born “the descendant of a SUPER Special Royal Family”

i’ll take 8 levels in wizard and 2 in pmc contractor

it’s semantic

at the end of the day everything boils down to sequence and branchifs

shut your mouth

why are people in this thread acting as if he’s just admitted to ordering hits on whistleblowers

fascists hate all art […] that doesn’t hew to their narrow prejudices

yeah i mean if you grok the underlying workings of scanf then there’s no problem

i’d just argue that the problem is understanding what you need to understand is the problem with straight c, and with any language like c++ where you’re liable to shoot thineself in thy foot

you deserve to be trapped in a particularly hellish demiplane

moist socks appear from the ether and strap themselves to your feet

How? They go where they point, or to NULL, and can be moved by arithmetic. If you move them where they shouldn’t go, bad things happen. If you deference NULL, bad things happen. That’s it.

what part of that is explicit to how scanf works?

All of C++? That’s unreasonable, it’s even in the name that it’s very expansive.

similarly, “all of pointers” is unreasonable

“all of pointers” can have a lot of unexpected results

that’s literally why java exists as a language, and is so popular

Plus all previous operating systems, all supercomputer climate, physics and other science simulations, all the toaster and car and so on chips using bespoke operating systems because Linux won’t fit, every computer solving practical engineering or logistics problems numerically, renderers…

sure, and the quantity of code where true low-level access is actually required is still absolutely minuscule compared to that where it isn’t

Once you understand pointers

once you understand C++ the pitfalls of C++ are reasonably consistent

I’m not sure I’d class much of OS programming and all embedded and high-performance computing as small

there are like what, 3 operating systems these days?

assume those are all written entirely in c and combine them and compare that to all code ever written

a footgun isn’t inherently bad, it just implies a significant amount of risk

yes, if you need the ability to code on a low level, maybe C is necessary, but the times where that is actually necessary is smol

also rust

exposing the machinations of the underlying CPU with no regard for safety is like, the definition of a footgun

people say this but C is significantly more batshit than javascript

oh you used scanf? one of the basic functions of our language? sorry that’s got a buffer overflow vulnerability so now your application is compromised

you say this but rdj doesn’t always play white guys

actually it says 8h meaning it’s only 8 hours old

i wouldn’t want to program in pure assembly either but asm is definitely powerful

use typescript and don’t look too hard at the infrastructure

good luck doing frontend development without it, but it can also do backend development

it can do everything