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Edited: Looks like they have safe alternatives: " - strlcpy() if you really just need a truncated but NUL-terminated string (we provide a compat version, so it's always available) …

Agreed. Ownership would be way too confusing to start out with.

I think starting with a language with static typing would be better. With Python or Javascript you still need to know how the types work otherwise you can run into unexpected "defi…

C++ is really nice for low-level OOP, and compared with C it adds generics and classes. Compared to Python, C++ is lower-level and can have significant performance gains with a wel…

The problem is that fundamentally we always have types. We must define different types of bytes and the different things we can do with those bytes. If you can generate a binary fr…

This exactly. That she's returning home from school at 6:30! The author didn't give their daughter's age, but we can assume it's right before 14, so maybe 12-13. I'm in high school…

From purely a programming perspective: Have they not heard of enums?

Free Software is amazing. I love emacs, Firefox, bash, zsh, nginx, postgres, llvm, linux, freebsd, and many other packages. But, I think that there are two points to be made with r…

High Schooler here. I've been teaching myself Vulkan and am writing a videogame, but I'm so exhausted on weekdays from my course-load that I only work on it on weekends and breaks.…

1/3 and 1/3 is 1/6 ;)

Highly available web-server with batteries for small business: 1. Goto digitalocean.com or linode.com 2. Buy the smallest instance. 3. Install FreeBSD. 4. Let it run for the next 2…

Is it WebGL?

The Rust is 10% slower metric I think is unfair. If you look on godbolt, the LLVM IR that rustc emits isn't that great, so LLVM has to take some extra time to optimize that, compar…

Epic HTML hacker here

HS student here. Our district made the decision to keep grades, or you can apply to drop distance learning if you meet certain circumstances. This is incredibly frustrating for me …

My point was more along the lines of the code bloat that comes from essentially emulating a web browser on system, when in reality you can write much faster code in C/C++ or even C…

I disagree. Headless code on a single server can still be very difficult. For instance, nginx, mariadb, etc, which allow the frontend to function well, are difficult to write. You …