Pointers is a pathway to memory that some consider to be… unnatural
SzethFriendOfNimi 40 points 3 years ago
Dudewitbow 15 points 3 years ago
Because its essential for application use where memory management becomes extremely vital, usually due to the rom or memory to be extremely linited in size. Worrying about memory management (something C++ makes mandatory) is something not all programmers need to care about, but having automated memory mangement is also what causes bloat that comes with modern applications, due to bad programming practices of not caring about it.
SzethFriendOfNimi 10 points 3 years ago
Only Garbage Collectors deal in absolutes
Dudewitbow 1 point 3 years ago
When you ever call new/malloc, its mandatory(dynamic allocation). For general programming, the size is usually decided at compilation.
Yes destructors will unallocate the memory, but the process of writing the destructor is part of the task of memory management
It becomes madness if you attempt to call dynamic memory outside of a class and its destructor, and hopefully the dev actually remembers to release said memory when their done.
LazaroFilm 6 points 3 years ago
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_thebrain_ 35 points 3 years ago
It sounds like a lie to me. Everyone knows there are no good parts of JavaScript.
SzethFriendOfNimi 4 points 3 years ago
Doug? That you?
SzethFriendOfNimi 3 points 3 years ago
Switch up the paradigm… in case you forgot to break out it
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cupcakezealot 13 points 3 years ago
that's still too thick a book for the good parts of javascript
Potatos_are_not_friends 7 points 3 years ago
This is for any subject.
There's a LOT of things that you don't need to know. Take for example, cooking. To get good, you don't need to know how fancy tricks. You just need to know the basics very well.
But after being experienced, it's valuable to know the other 95%. Those weird edge cases.
grue 6 points 3 years ago
There's a difference: in this case it's not about omitting fancy tricks you don't need to know until you become an expert; it's about omitting ill-considered features that should never have existed to begin with (or, at best, features that made sense at some point in the past but don't anymore) and that nobody should ever use again no matter how expert they get.
Archpawn 1 point 3 years ago
The majority of dumb stuff in Javascript is that it has some counterintuitive way of doing something that it shouldn't do at all, so only teaching the good parts works. So teaching just the good parts is pretty reasonable.
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C++ the good parts exclusively uses on stack allocation and passing by const reference without ever introducing pointers.
You know this to be true.
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