I remember pointers being very hard to grok when I was first learning about them. And then once I was finally starting to understand, I saw a char and my head e

I remember pointers being very hard to grok when I was first learning about them. And then once I was finally starting to understand, I saw a char and my head exploded. It took some time & practice for it to become second nature, but eventually it did. It's interesting how most languages have this concept, even if they don't call it "pointers". In some ways that reduces complexity and learning curve, but in other ways it leaves invisible footguns lying around. JavaScript comes to mind as one where references and referential equality are very important to understand, especially in modern frontend dev with its focus on immutability, but there's no syntax like C's `*` and `&` to lend clues about what's going on. I ended up writing a visual guide to "pointers for JS devs" [0] to help explain the concept, because I think it's really easy to get bitten by reference bugs when your mental model doesn't match what's happening. [0]: https://daveceddia.com/javascript-references/ https://daveceddia.com/javascript-references/