bigpingo

I have always had the same line:

AI will blow my mind when it solves an unsolved mathematical/physics/scientific problem, i.e: "AI, give me a proof for (or against) the Riemann hypothesis"

For C and C++* projects under ~100k lines I wouldnt bother with incremental builds - I have a 70k C project with a single translation unit that builds in under 1s on my machine.

* C++ requires some discipline to not explode build times, but it can be done if you dont go nuts with templates and standard headers.

And this is why type based alias analysis (TBAA) is insane and why projects like linux complies with fno-strict-aliasing.

C should issue a defect report and get rid of that nonsense from the standard.

Yeah I never got the aversion to operator overloading either.

"+ can do anything!" As you said, so can plus().

"Hidden function calls?" Have they never programmed a soft float or microcontroller without a div instruction? Function calls for every floating point op.

gcc is available on and targets more platforms than rust. So if GNU C is not considered portable you can forget about 'portable rust'.

I hate annoying distractions, be it popups, beeps, notifications, alerts, auto brace/quotes/etc and autocomplete prompts. I turn all of that off in every program because I want to be in total control of the computer.

When it comes to autocomplete specifically I initially turned it off because I was mainly a C++ programmer and C++ autocomplete has just never been good enough and a half-working autocomplete is just worse than nothing at all because you end up stalling and waiting for the prompt. But eventually I just grew to hate it for all languages because it interrupts flow and "pipelining".

Link to GPT-4 passing the turing test? Tried googling, could not find anything.

  printf("%.*s", len, str);

lets you pass the length as an int argument.