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The one where I've done it as a career for the last 15 years (and as a hobby/side career for a few years before that). I've not touched a pointer directly in t
by noir_lord 10y ago
The one where I've done it as a career for the last 15 years (and as a hobby/side career for a few years before that).
I've not touched a pointer directly in the last 10 and infrequently enough before that.
Just not much call for them in Python, JavaScript and PHP.
Do I have to hand in my Real World Programmer(TM) badge at the door or something?.
- Intermernet 10y agoHow very dare you! All real programming involves pointers! How shall you mutate that variable without using another 4kb of ram without pointers! In all seriousness, I love c and c++, and go, and rust, but most real world apps can currently be done quite performantly without touching pointers, or using a language that exposes them.
- noir_lord 10y agoPretty much this and two of the three languages I use regularly have the ability to call into a language that does use them so if I ran into a case where I needed more speed (and throwing hardware at it wasn't the cheapest approach which it often is) I could use something like C for that. I'd be rusty as hell though, I haven't written any C or assembly since ~1999.
- thechao 10y agoI have extra pointers. I could lend you some. Although, in my defense, some of them don't point to legal memory, so YMMV.