proud recipient of the prestigious you tried award.
i will never forgive them for making the pointer type be T* instead of &T. most confusing thing ever.
don’t even get me started on C++ making T& the reference type and then making T&& be something other than the double reference type.
god, what a beautiful language. it brings a tear to my eye
i will never forgive C for making the type syntax be
char* args[]
instead of the much more reasonable
&[char] args
it also bothers me that char* args[] and char c are “the same type” in the sense that the compiler lets you write
char c, *args[5];
with no problems. i think the C languages would be way easier to learn if they had better type syntax. don’t even get me started on C++ adding support for
auto fn_name() -> ReturnType { … }
i agree but would like to add that it’s generally good practice to stay away from rockets
this is p-adic gender erasure
why couldn’t you compute p/q < r/s by checking ps < rq? if you follow the convention that denominators have to be strictly positive then you don’t even have to take signs into account. and you can check equality in the same way. no float conversion necessary. you do still need to eat a big multiplication though, which kind of sucks. the point you bring up of needing to reduce fractions after adding or multiplying also a massive problem. maybe we could solve this by prohibiting the end user from adding or multiplying numbers
if cows could be on the C++ committee i would eat nothing but hamburgers
it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.
they should have just used rust smh
always remember, <=> is the three-way comparison operator. it takes two arguments.
it would be a pretty funny post for the full 5 minutes it would last until it got stalin sorted out of lemmy.ml
i think it’s mainly people being cranky and set in their ways. they got used to working around all the footguns/bad design decisions of the C/C++ specifications and really don’t want to feel like it was all for nothing. they’re comfortable with C/C++, and rust is new and uncomfortable. i think for some people, being a C/C++ developer is also a big part of their identity, and it might be uncomfortable to let that go.
i also think there’s a historical precedent for this kind of thing: when a new way of doing things emerges, many of the people who grew up doing it the old way get upset about it and refuse to accept that the new way might be an improvement.
what a beautiful language
after using gentoo for a couple months, i think i know a thing or two about spending Real Time getting the linux kernel
it’s floor 5 from monday to wednesday, and floor 2 from thursday to sunday
i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day
but i don’t want to print my screen, i just want a picture of it.