• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

    I mean if memory management is “the only way to shoot yourself in the foot” in C, then thats a quite big part of the language!

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      5 months ago

      If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

      Person is saying that C has one big footgun, while C++ has armory of them