Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.
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Learn some C you whippersnapper! You ain't gonna become a proper programmer unless you understand your basic low level concepts well!
The youth nowadays, always hiding behind abstractions of abstractions that 90% of the time are just C wrappers anyway /j
(written by an early 20s PHP dev LOL. Although I do plan on learning C quite a bit before I move to C++ and ultimately Rust)
You're not a "real" programmer unless you started with FORTRAN :p
Pfft compilers. Just use assembler.
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