miversen33

@miversen33@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A And B⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an Ubuntu live disc and a Windows install on a USB drive on my keychain lol. The amount of times I’ve needed one of those and not had it is more than 0 lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  C is simple. Like really simple. Hardly anything exists in C lol. You have Integers, floats, chars, arrays, functions, pointers and structs. That’s it.

  Therefore reading C isn’t too difficult.

  Now doing anything in C? Lol have fun with that, nothing exists in C.

  C++, you’re absolutely right lol the standard lib in c++ is so god damn big I don’t even know where to begin when using it. And there’s like a billion different ways to approach a problem there.

  I like C. I don’t like working on C just because if you want a hashmap you must first build the universe lol. But c is fun.

  I’ve been finding that same fun feeling in Rust though I haven’t used it long enough to know whether that’s just the “ohh new shiny” fun or “I really like this” fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo the amount of magic variables in perl is too damn high.

  Like I don’t want to have to keep all that in my head while parsing through thousands of lines of code. I spent a few years working as a perl developer and even near my last days there I still found myself digging through docs to figure out what certain symbols meant and did.

  My first developer role was as a junior developer and I was tossed into single letter variable loop hell in perl lol.

  I was telling my mentor that if I were introduced to perl now that I’ve got several years of experience in a variety of different languages and thought models, it probably wouldn’t bother me as much. I kind of like bash (sometimes) and perl is really a hyper extended scripting language so going from bash to perl isn’t too bad. But given that that is what I was started in, I have a massive distaste for it and I doubt that will ever change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My main issue with PS is that it is JavaScripty. And by that I mean, it makes tons of assumptions on what I “mean” by my command. And it’s usually right and thus I don’t see any issues. But then those assumptions are wrong, I have to do all kinds of parameter fuckery to make it be what I “expect”.

  None of that is true is bash. It doesn’t make many assumptions at all (at least none that I’ve come across). Things act the same when I’m using bash in a script vs the cli vs over an ash connection vs within a subshell, etc.

  And ya the whole “it’s pretty verbose” is irritating too (though that could also be a counter argument against bash relying on magic variables and abusing the shit out of symbols).

  I don’t hate PS but I don’t enjoy spending time in it. I don’t hate bash but it hurts me less when I use it