Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand?

• miversen33@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location.

  They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.

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