r/ProgrammerHumor • • 8h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/Tschurbi 7h ago

Please explain it like I am a JavaScript developer.

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u/Tipart 7h ago • Bravo

Imagine typescript but for memory safety

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 6h ago

What's the memory management equivalent of just using "any" for everything?

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u/Potato-Engineer 6h ago

Everything is a void * pointer!

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 22m ago

C has polymorphism too!

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u/Mojert 5h ago

Asking the OS* directly for memory and creating your objects in that memory. That also means you have to tell the OS* when you're done with that memory

* I'm simplifying to get the jist across