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2026-05-09 11:20 UTC
Replies (12)
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@30p87@feddit.org 2026-05-09 11:24
It’s fucking genius
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@slazer2au@lemmy.world 2026-05-09 11:31
Unicode truly is amazing. Like that fake apple site that uses the Cyrillic A instead of the Latin A. Or the Greek question mark being a different code to Latin question marks.
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@pooberbee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-09 12:14
My old job legitimately did this in C++ with a Perl script because we had to be able to build on some weird, old systems and couldn’t use C++ templates.
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@Australis13@fedia.io 2026-05-09 12:17
I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified.
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@poopsmith@lemmy.ml 2026-05-09 12:38
The OOP goons eventually won and Go added generics a few years back.
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@trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-09 13:04
I had to start reading that three times over, because I saw they mentioned “Canadian” and just assumed the angle brackets are a joke in reference to the Canadians in South Park:
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@apftwb@lemmy.world 2026-05-09 13:27
<> These angle brackets ᐸᐳ These are Canadian Aboriginal Syntax Blocks
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@freeman@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-09 15:17
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@yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2026-05-09 15:47
Uncaffeinated needs Lisp in their life. The programming language doesn’t have a feature you need? Implement it yourself 👍
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@LodeMike@lemmy.today 2026-05-09 17:48
Doesn’t go actually have generics?
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@mercano@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 01:33
Things to remember if you ever enter an obfuscated code competition.
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@Solemarc@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 12:33
Imagine reinventing preprocessor macros in go…