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How very dare you! All real programming involves pointers! How shall you mutate that variable without using another 4kb of ram without pointers! In all serious
by Intermernet 10y ago
How 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.