That’s really interesting. Thanks for the links!

I first heard the Turkish song I mentioned when I one day found myself in a concert on a trip to turkey. We weren’t allowed to take pictures or video but I recorded the audio and the music was so bumping so I audio searched the song.

Age 10? That’s a completely different person. A person I feel sorry for.

There was this green apple flavored soda that was basically candy but I loved it

What does it taste like?

We use peanut butter in some traditional dishes where I’m from. I’m actually surprised I couldn’t find any peanut butter with no sugar added here in Europe.

Why do you ask about that specific show?

It works short term. If you have a deadline tomorrow by all means.

Long term you need to be aware of not just the code but the theory behind the code. You can make it work if you’re promoting what you need and read the result, understand it and test it but if we pure vibe coding is probably too much. How are you gonna solve problems when you don’t fully understand how things work?

Another thing, a lot of AI generated code solves the problem in the most obvious often bad way. For example I asked the AI for help with an ORM limitation I was running into and so many times the code it suggested was just query the db, then filter in code afterwards

Back in reddit in r/languagelearning whenever someone asked this question without giving any context about who they are or what they want out of language learning there was a long running joke to reply with “Uzbek”

You should learn Uzbek.

Mediocre-landia, Population: 1

You still can if you come back in 5 years

I feel like it’s always been like that. Did the mods give you a reason for removing your post?

By reddit standards maybe. I’ll tell you though I am always delighted whenever I recognize a user from another thread.

Fair point

There’s only one forum I visit nowadays and it gets older threads revived every now and then. Usually to say “Whatever happened to that? Is it done yet?”

Oh I didn’t know that! I didn’t grow up on forums but I used them a few times here and there. You’re right new replies do push a thread to the top. Kind of a bad design lol.

I think people call it deadposting. I’ve heard someone be like “Sorry for deadposting” so I thought if they’re apologizing it must be frowned upon.

Proof?

The name is Mr. T. First name is Mr, middle name is that period, last name is T.

— Mr. T

Do it.

Thank you for your wisdom. I hope one day I can be as knowledgeable as you people.

Hmm. Well I tried to learn C++ as my first programming language when I was 12 so that’s probably the reason lol. I was just bad at everything at that time. I moved onto Java next, but maybe I should revisit C++.

But if I had to name specifics these come to mind right now:

• Using code across multiple files or libraries is really annoying. The preprocessor directives, I kinda get them but there’s always something that breaks and I don’t understand why. Also why isn’t there a package manager or something like that? Hmm maybe there is nowadays but I don’t know if there was back then
• Still don’t know what a link error is or why it would randomly show up and then disappear if I restart visual studio
• I know this is a meme but long hard to understand error messages in the case of C++ and no useful error messages at all in C
• In C did you know that the order of items in a struct matters? I didn’t until I spent an hour debugging a segfault.
• Obviously C doesn’t have strings. Accomplishing even the simplest things in C feels really hard. Like you’re on your own.

I’m very sure all of these can be summed up as me being bad at the languages. Skill issue etc. and it’s true. I am bad at both.

But the point is there’s a lot of things I don’t understand and that seem unintuitive to me. So it’s not fun, so I don’t use it. If you gave me a programming problem for fun and told me choose your language I would never choose C++ and certainly not C. I’d use Python, JavaScript or Java because they feel more fun to use and I can see progress faster. Same for my new projects. I’ve never tried to make anything more complicated than a command line program in C++ or C.

At the same time I understand that higher level languages abstract a lot of things away from you and I really do wanna get better at understanding those concepts.

Anyway thanks for attending my therapy session.