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Me, after carefully reading Rust's ownership and borrow checker rules (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by chromeleon@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's how the C++ code should have looked all the time. And the amount of people that get surprised and complain about this is just more evidence that nobody should write C++. Ever.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Exactly, C++ is what came to my mind when I saw this. Some people don't put references??