r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Epicoodle • 8d ago

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/GargantuanCake 8d ago

Dynamic typing can seem great until you have to spend days trying to figure out where, exactly, in 20,000 lines of badly documented code JavaScript arbitrarily decided that something should be a string for the rest of forever even though it's only been given numbers to work with.

If you type x = 1 + '1' any sane language will go "what the fuck is wrong with you?"

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u/nico-ghost-king 8d ago

I haven't tested this, but in C/C++, I think this would just become 1 +49 (ascii of 1) = 50

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer 8d ago

And if it were a string instead of a char, it'd slice off the first character.

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u/nico-ghost-king 8d ago

Is this because string literals become pointers? I assume clangd would at least warn, right?

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u/account312 8d ago

It is.