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@Phnxio Recursion.
I finally understood it when I explained it to myself…
using the explanation I gave myself…
after explaining it to myself…
which only worked once I understood recursion. 😵💫
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@Phnxio Concurrency (esp. shared-state + subtle races). It *feels* fine until it isn’t. The mental model shift to message-passing / immutability + good observability made it finally click.
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@Phnxio As a kid it was definitely pointers in cpp.
"Wtf do you mean I pass a memory address?"
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@Phnxio Pointers in C++… oh boy 🤯
I still sometimes stare at my code wondering where exactly that memory is pointing 😂
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