• Piatro@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    I love the argument about c having type safety with the little side-swipe at rust. “AcTuAlLy C does have type safety! You just have to jump through the following 50 hoops to get it!”. I’m an outsider to both C and Rust but it’s still funny.

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      1 day ago

      People that say that are thinking of strong typed languages instead of type safe languages. There’s a difference. And it looks like you’re on to it.

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      3 days ago

      It is pretty funny that C’s type system can be described pretty differently based on the speaker’s experience. The parable of the Blub language comes to mind.