JimmyChezPants on Nostr: Geeks love C, the way Maverick loves jets. Apt metaphor - C has no guardrails and you ...
Geeks love C, the way Maverick loves jets. Apt metaphor - C has no guardrails and you can murder your hardware, even, if you write something bad enough.
It's dangerous to have no guardrails, but also kinda fun; you can do things nobody's seen, maybe.
Many humans chafe at guardrails, because they want to seem daring. Or sometimes, because the guardrails are not actually there for safety, but to gatekeep, or to monopolize a finite resource.
There is a raw honesty, though, to C.
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It's dangerous to have no guardrails, but also kinda fun; you can do things nobody's seen, maybe.
Many humans chafe at guardrails, because they want to seem daring. Or sometimes, because the guardrails are not actually there for safety, but to gatekeep, or to monopolize a finite resource.
There is a raw honesty, though, to C.
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