Post #3213167
2023-11-03 18:40 UTC
@thephd@pony.social When you’re telling your users they’re using it wrong, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate what product you’re actually making.
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@thephd@pony.social 2023-11-03 18:50
@shac@ioc.exchange This would be fine if I was the one telling users what it is and isn't for and attributing magic properties to C or C++. This is a response to people saying "C is special because it can access the hardware" and the cold hard truth is "it accesses it the same way literally everyone else does: with a linker script, some startup assembly, and agreed upon magic numeric pointer values blessed by your a combination of your compiler, ISA, and hardware vendors".
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@lonjil@social.treehouse.systems 2023-11-03 21:21
@shac@ioc.exchange @thephd@pony.social users want something that cannot exist: they want mystical low level hardware control, that is somehow highly portable, and also runs super super fast.