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always wanted to C in the 4th dimension
It’s not that bad, besides who cares with machines being as fast as they are nowadays?
I care, when I need to compile a lot of stuff multiple times on not-as-fast machines. I’ll create a private repo powered by my workstation just for this. For C stuff I don’t need to, because I can just use my workstations power via distcc.
I once saw an issue someone made for some database and said that they were learning Rust and if the database was rewritten in Rust then they could help contribute!
Change is hard.
Issue is, Rust is not a drop-in replacement for C. The memory safety features are just one part, and since Rust is also a “weakly” functional language, thus its prefered to write such code with it.
Anything that is drop-in replacement for C (or C++ for that matter) is going to be awful because of the same compatibility burden, imo
What about Zig?
Oh boy, Zig is just uglier C++ with memory safety, and it still has those awful header files…
IIRC it’s garbage collected, so really it’s just a version of Java.
D is a mostly drop-in replacement (type renaming and such needed though), and it doesn’t have that issue. D even has a mode called BetterC, where the D standard library and the garbage collector is left out.
Yeah, it’s not a small change. If there was a simpler way to make C memory-safe, it would have been done decades ago. It’s just a different language too, which is fair given how much younger it is.
If there was a simpler way to make C memory-safe, it would have been done decades ago.
We’ve had compile time sanitizers (-fsanitize=blah in gcc/clang) and runtime sanitizers (valgrind) for ages. I don’t know how they stack up against rust’s compile time sanitizers, but it’s something.
D kind of did that (C pointers are still an option, alongside with the preferred dynamic arrays, which has the memory safety features), and once I’ve seen a C compiler fork that retroactively added D-style memory safety features, although they also very much insisted on the “const by default” mantra.
I think this is one of those things where there’s no “kind of”. Pointers were added for a reason, you’re probably not going to implement a database very well without them. If you use them, at some scale you’re inevitably going to have memory bugs. Technically, if you were to only use hardcoded printfs, C is memory safe too.
- C
- C plus plus
- C plus plus plus plus
- C plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus
- C plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus plus
Nix
I’m starting to have my suspicions
This isn’t the evolution of C at all. It’s all just one language and you’re simply stuck in a lower dimension with a dimensionally compatible cross-section.
C₊𝅄⨧⁺ᐩ is used for building firmware for hyperdimensional singularity processors.
How did you insert those unicodes???
On PC, you can hold Alt and press a number combination, like 1 or 257, to get an ASCII smiley. Not Unicode, but hey, it’s something
On windows *
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Go here and Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V
I especially like ⨹
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Fun fact, C didn’t have a lot of things like Classes and was often distributed or stored alongside various libraries so it was C Plus (as in addition to) Libraries before it was C++, and somebody decided the next iteration was C with 4 pluses, which forms a #
Source: Bjarne Stroustrup, I forget which addition of his C++ book.
The last one needs the prongs sticking out to make it a hyperhashtag.
I really like the theory that the Carbon language is that 3-dimension one—a carbon lattice
I’m not ready for 4D, just let me try out C Lattice on a few smaller projects first.
“works on my machine.”
“Just a heads up that we’ll be shipping your machine to the client, since it’s the only machine on Earth known to support the software. You’re getting the spare machine out of the basement. Super fast Cyrix processor. Looks like it boots to Windows 11 release 3, but they’ve written it 3.11 for some reason.”
Lol I had windows 11 before it was cool
I wonder if I could upgrade it to Windows 95 and run X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter on it.
Closes ticket, marks Git issue as closed
C ube?
I’ve been a professional programmer for nearly a decade and I just realized that C# is C++++ with the pluses stacked
Yes, and that is on purpose! It was always meant to be a joke on C++ :)
I’m glad I wasn’t the only uncultured swine unaware of the ++++ = #
I know right‽ feels like when I learnt about the FedEx arrow for the first time
o shit
What FedEx arrow?
between E and xHoly shit that’s crazy
There’s a lot of logos with hidden stuff like that.
Amazon’s logo has an arrow going from A to Z, implying they sell everything “from A to Z”
The Tostito’s logo has two people holding chips (the Ts) and a bowl of salsa (the dot on the I):
Toyota’s logo has every letter of the company name in it:
The LG logo has the letters L and G in it:
Now if only LG could make a microwave where the LED display didn’t go out after a year.
I got mine 13 months ago, still going strong. I can check how much time is left on my phone anyway.
It’s interesting to me that they used the English alphabet for the Toyota symbol instead of Japanese. Or is that symbol localised?
I’d guess the Toyota one is just coincidental.
The US is probably a much bigger market. I imagine it’s the same reason LG is English alphabet and not Hangul. Same with Kia, Hyundai, Samsung, etc.
But this is mere speculation. I could be 100% wrong, happens daily!
I hate it so much, but the Baskin Robbins BR has the number 31 in it
What does it mean? I would guess count of assorted flavours, but I am no expert in numerology
It always pissed me off that they use this as an example of white space use. No one sees it.
Logo designers do.
Because a prof showed them on the first class. But in any case, if logo designers are the only ones to notice, the logo fails its purpose.
Took me like a minute to find it
There’s also a spoon to symbolise that the couriers were fed soup.
To symbolise the ex was fed 🌚
Holy shit that’s crazy
- TIL.
Me too - maybe because I was distracted by the irony that C# devs are typically the opposite of sharp… Or because it’s MicroShit and I didn’t give a flippin fuck ;)
Don’t cut yourself on that edge kiddo
Cringy
