AnimaLibera

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Allowing to compress code this much is the goal of golfing languages (such as 05AB1E (or osabie) or Pyth (not Python)). The code golf stack exchange forum contains a lot of programming challenges where the goal is to write the shorest program (in bytes) that does what the challenge asks, and some answers are truly impressive, with somewhat non-trivial algorithms being implemented in as few as 4 bytes (in extreme cases). Granted, these are programming challenges and not production code to be deployed, and some golfing languages are designed for a specific kind of task or algorithm that may let us think that the algorithm was actually pre-implemented in the language (and sometimes it is kinda true), but still, worth taking a look at it.

AnimaLibera

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

"No idea" is a bit strong, we actually have some amount of knowledge on the workings of the human brain, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51920832_Cognitive_...

AnimaLibera

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Actually when I said that in comparison Rust is boring, I was only half joking. C++ is way more fun in the sense that it feels like a patchwork with surprising interactions that can get even C++ masters. C++ dev sounds like a fun job ^^

AnimaLibera

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Don't get me wrong, C++ is interesting to work with ^^, but what I said is true (just go ahead and test it, `#include <cstdint>`, then initialize a variable of type `int8_t` and `std::cout` it, I just tried it on godbolt.org with the `x86-64 gcc 11.2` compiler and it printed the value as a character rather than as a number (unlike an `int32_t`)). I never miss an opportunity to mock C++ and its many layers of features that don't always interact well with each others. Maybe take it as a fun fact and not as an attack..

AnimaLibera

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

By "glibc" i meant the GNU C++ standard library implementation, not glibc

AnimaLibera

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

C++ is sooo much better than any other compiled language! For example, using std::cout to print the value 97 will produce different results depending on whether this value is of the type int8_t or int32_t (but in Rust, printing 97 always outputs "97" without depending on the type of 97 that can be i8, i32, whatever). This is because C++ uses C headers to typedef int into int32_t (or whatever is 32 bits on the implementation that is being used) and to typedef char into int8_t (so the value 97 of type int8_t is printed as "a"), at least that is the case with glibc. What a good language, in comparison Rust is so boring and uninteresting.

AnimaLibera

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Ah a LangJam entry ^^ There are plenty more original ideas for one to check out at https://github.com/langjam/jam0001 Teams had 48h to design and implement a programming language based on the theme "first-class comments".