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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:54AM (#35479645)
Beej's guide to C programming is very helpful:

https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/unicode-wide-characters...

Re:John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018) on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:53AM (#34845572)
> Where only performance matters, oop wins

If you tell that Mike Acton he will give you an unhappy face. [0]

In fact OOP can hurt performance a lot.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

> A simpler approach is the addition of struct member attributes, and is under discussion and early development by both the GCC and Clang developer communities.

Does anyone know where I can follow these discussions?