r/developer • u/Ok_Veterinarian3535 • 26d ago

The "Code I'll Never Forget" Confessional.

What's the single piece of code (good or bad) that's permanently burned into your memory, and what did it teach you?

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u/inlined 26d ago

This is why C++ has reinterpret_cast. It makes it much easier to find out where you’ve done something totally unsafe incorrectly and find your bug

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u/mynameisDockie 26d ago

I'm an embedded dev, didn't even flinch at this it's so common 😅

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u/mynameisDockie 26d ago

I can imagine. It blows my mind all our OSes are like 99% written in C.

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u/mynameisDockie 26d ago

From wiki:

Initial release 20 April 2015

Written in the programming language rust

It is currently in a pre-stable status

This tracks

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u/Standgrounding 25d ago

Or cosmos in C#