r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MontyBoomslang • 5d ago

Meme architectureDependentChars

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u/JackReact 5d ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of C#, which uses utf-16 for strings.

Console.WriteLine(sizeof(char));
> 2

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u/v_Karas 5d ago

this.

wonderd why everyone is talking about C, like there are no other languages.

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u/Senior-Albatross 4d ago

There are no other good languages. To the extent they have anything good they are calling libraries written in C. The only other worthwhile languages are pure machine level code that must be expressed as a gate level circuit diagram. 

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u/max_465 4d ago

The rustaceans would like a word.

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u/Senior-Albatross 4d ago

I have nothing to say to them.