• miversen33@lemmy.world
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    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.

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        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 :)

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          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.