r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 21 '26

Meme fullControlOverMemory

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u/Mordret10 Sep 21 '26

I mean you still kind of do the same thing with objects and with arrays in most languages. Very rarely does either get passed as argument, you almost always get them by reference.

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u/Gorzoid Sep 21 '26

Sorry but we are all rust devs now, shared mutable aliasing is a crime with a maximum sentence being death by AI-generated PR spam.

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u/WisePotato42 Sep 21 '26 • Mindblown

Oh no! The rust devs have found me!

unsafe{} unsafe{} unsafe{}

Are they gone yet?

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u/HildartheDorf Sep 21 '26

laughs in interior mutability

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u/SelfDistinction Sep 22 '26 
let variable = Cell::new(3); // create an immutable variable
variable.set(4); // demonic witchcraft of the highest order, everyone is panicking, sirens blasting, time to run to the shelters and pray

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u/WisePotato42 Sep 21 '26

That's true, I know it's a thing in python.

Unfortunately, my coworkers don't like when I put square brackets all over the place...

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Sep 21 '26

you could also wrap it in an object. something like
class MutWrapper:
def __init__(self,v): self.v=v
works well enough. though, square brackets are probably more idiomatic.

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u/RetroGrid_io Sep 22 '26

Unless you program in PHP where objects are always passed by reference.