• adr1an@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    Cyou count to 100? Learn quantum physics, compute the odds for each ball, and win the lottery. Easy peasy. I don’t know why these kids can’t thrive here in the future.

    /s

    In all seriousness, learning c++ or any language is good advice but it may only be easy or even possible if you have a certain background of concepts. We tend to overlook those, and remember achieving a certain skill without the full picture

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      8 hours ago

      I contributed a feature to the .NET JIT without knowing C++.
      I really dont know C++, I have at most wrote 300 lines while following a tutorial 6 years ago.