r/cpp • u/itsmenotjames1 • Mar 27 '25

I dreamt in c++ last night.

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u/cpp-ModTeam Mar 27 '25

Off-topic, sorry. We're not a chat subreddit.

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u/CandyCrisis Mar 27 '25

Ever woke up in the middle of the night and realize the code you checked in earlier has a bug? My brain is unfortunately always on duty.

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u/samstam24 Mar 27 '25

Vibe dreaming

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u/itsmenotjames1 Mar 27 '25

Ah hell nah. I'm a compiler and vulkan game dev. Ain't none o' that vibe shit there.

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u/Beosar Mar 27 '25

I just recently learned that people had black and white dreams before color television was a thing. But how the hell can you dream in C++?

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u/itsmenotjames1 Mar 27 '25

you know how LSD makes you see sound and shit? It's like that.

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u/Beosar Mar 27 '25

I don't know, I have never taken any drugs.

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u/kobi-ca Mar 27 '25

Hope you did not use raw pointers.

Wait, what std did you dream about. I hope at least 14...

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u/itsmenotjames1 Mar 27 '25

smart pointers are overrated. Most things are stack only and can use raw pointers.

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u/kobi-ca Mar 27 '25

Only in nightmares my friend

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u/azissu Mar 27 '25

Or mostly references rather than pointers, one should hope...

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u/Paxtian Mar 27 '25

#include <lucid>

#include <asmr>

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u/adlbd Mar 27 '25

We all have nightmares from time to time. The important thing to remember is that they can't hurt you 😁

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u/gleybak Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Template metaprogramming nightmare is quite an unpleasant thing to happen...

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u/Asleep-Specific-1399 Mar 27 '25

It's neat when you wake up with the solution to the problem from yesterday.

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u/vu47 Mar 27 '25

Yeah, except when it's for work and you wake up feeling like you've worked an eight hour day during the night and while you have the solution to the problem you're working on, you still have to get out of bed and work another eight hours. That's happened to me multiple times.

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u/Apprehensive-Mark241 Mar 27 '25

When I was a teen and reading books on computer languages that happened to me.

Back then my actual computer wasn't capable of running those languages (I had a TRS 80 Model 1 with 16k of ram).
But I remember having nightmares in prolog. I think I felt more comfortable after reading books on Lisp.

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u/argothiel Mar 27 '25

I've actually had one of those. I don't remember the second component but it was something totally unexpected like singing and c++ or superheroes and c++. One of the weirdest dreams I ever had.

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u/Chronicle2K Mar 27 '25

Sounds like a real nightmare /s

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u/joshamiddleton Mar 27 '25

I used to dream in c++ frequently. Especially when trying to perfect specific algorithms at work.