Re:Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of c...
by baash05 on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:48PM
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In their defence.. Most modern languages don't really make use of these.
I mean recursion is almost never better than a while loop (stacks don't love it), and pointers... Yeah everything in JS and Python, Elixir and Ruby is really a pointer (most everything) but the average day to day it's not something devs care all that much about.
As an ex c and c++ dev, and CS grad, I know about them. I think if I pushed myself, I could find perhaps 5 times in the last 10 years where knowing that things are pass by references in ruby was expressed as such.
I mean recursion is almost never better than a while loop (stacks don't love it), and pointers... Yeah everything in JS and Python, Elixir and Ruby is really a pointer (most everything) but the average day to day it's not something devs care all that much about.
As an ex c and c++ dev, and CS grad, I know about them. I think if I pushed myself, I could find perhaps 5 times in the last 10 years where knowing that things are pass by references in ruby was expressed as such.