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@Arikalabs It's easier to build on SQL than convince everyone to leave it.

SQL has outlived everything invented to kill it. It will outlive the next thing too.

Nobody knows bash. Everybody writes bash.

In 1995 Niklaus Wirth warned that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. Thirty years later it's the only law in computing that never needed patching.

Everyone learned to wipe passwords before free(). for years, the compiler quietly removed it. not because it was broken because it proved nobody would read those bytes again. security lost to optimization until C23 finally gave us memset_explicit().

@Arikalabs fr fr

@straceX Moore's Law slowed down. Wirth's Law never did.

@Arikalabs Metaprogramming just got even more meta.

C++26 added reflection, so the language can finally see what it has become. 🙂

@Arikalabs every great engineer spends more time reading code than writing it.

Somewhere around year five you stop being afraid of reading other people's source, and that's the real promotion. the vendor SDK, glibc, the kernel. docs describe intent. code describes behavior. production runs the code.

@Arikalabs fact 👏

Legacy code is code that makes money.

Signed overflow has been undefined behavior since C89. It took until C23 to get a standard way to check for it without committing it first.

@dileepthoutam lol

@straceX three years after his last post blud knows all the actual software engineers use X

Bro writing Threads on X. 😭

@IceSolst lol

You can just not pay the annual fee and keep it on your resume. Nothing they can do.

@i2cjak Congratulations 🎉

im officially monetizable

@Arikalabs this is why it worked with -O0 isn't evidence that the code was ever correct.

the compiler isn't gaslighting you. you already proved cfg isn't null the moment you dereferenced it. so at -O2, GCC and Clang are free to delete the null check as dead code. undefined behavior doesn't just make bugs harder to debug. It teaches the optimizer what it thinks must be true.

Signed overflow has been undefined behavior since C89. It took until C23 to get a standard way to check for it without committing it first.

C++ engineers fear undefined behavior the way sailors fear the sea: professionally, and while living on it.

@Arikalabs import numpy is basically asking C to take over.

Python: the world's most successful interface to C.

printf is still the best debugger ever made.