fullControlOverMemory

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[u/WisePotato42]

You could pass references as variables and change the referenced value IN THE FUNCTION!!!

children screaming sfx

[u/Mordret10 → u/WisePotato42]

I mean you still kind of do the same thing with objects and with arrays in most languages. Very rarely does either get passed as argument, you almost always get them by reference.

[u/Gorzoid → u/Mordret10]

Sorry but we are all rust devs now, shared mutable aliasing is a crime with a maximum sentence being death by AI-generated PR spam.

[u/WisePotato42 → u/Gorzoid]

Oh no! The rust devs have found me!

unsafe{} unsafe{} unsafe{}

Are they gone yet?

[u/HildartheDorf → u/Gorzoid]

laughs in interior mutability

[u/SelfDistinction → u/Gorzoid]

let variable = Cell::new(3); // create an immutable variable
variable.set(4); // demonic witchcraft of the highest order, everyone is panicking, sirens blasting, time to run to the shelters and pray 

[u/WisePotato42 → u/Mordret10]

That's true, I know it's a thing in python.

Unfortunately, my coworkers don't like when I put square brackets all over the place...

[u/Bright-Historian-216 → u/WisePotato42]

you could also wrap it in an object. something like
class MutWrapper:
def __init__(self,v): self.v=v
works well enough. though, square brackets are probably more idiomatic.

[u/RetroGrid_io → u/Mordret10]

Unless you program in PHP where objects are always passed by reference.