A person I watch frequently gave me this gem. Please forgive the annoying thumbnail.
I’ve seen this sentiment in a few places recently, and as a software engineer with 20 years of experience I can say with 100% certainty that this is a terrible (and dangerous) trend when it comes to programming.
Undergrads should absolutely be learning how memory works, how to allocate it, when to free it, and what issues you can get into when you don’t do it properly. Sheltering them from such things will lead to a more ignorant generation of developers, which will lead to a lot of headaches down the road, for everyone.
The programming field is going through what math has been going through for ages. Many people don’t want to learn how things work because they can use a calculator or software to do basic maths. But then when it comes to actually understanding what’s going on, there becomes a big loss.
When I clicked the thread I thought this was a joke and am now experiencing a degree of horror.
This is almost certainly not intentional. The AI just can’t differentiate between unsafe as in NSFW and unsafe as in manual memory management.
Agreed. I’ve been seeing the trend myself and it’s a damn shame. Ignorance isn’t a reason to shelter others
Manual memory management has about as much applicability these days as assembler did back when I was doing my degree. It should be covered as part of learning How Things Work Under the Hood, it’s still needed for some kinds of specialist work, but many—perhaps even the majority of—people writing code will never need to deal with it in the real world, because the languages in which most code is written these days all have some form of memory management.
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you should allocate a billion arrays just because the memory is managed for you. It’s still inefficient.
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Good bot
Good Lemming
Lol
We gots a lil buddy (downvoter) Poor guy thinks anyone gives a shit
Nah, I found it amusing, no ill intent was ment.
We’re all having fun, thats wat matterz (I never count not giving a shit unless I’m not enjoying it ;)
