I've probably only used pointers a handful of times in my professional career (lots when I was self teaching C++). I graduated collage in 2007 and I only had a couple of class that were C based, even back then everything was mostly Java.
Lmao that’s scary. At least they can understand pointers in c. My new hires can’t understand writing a junit test in java
My career is in games and using Unity specifically. So pretty much only C# unless there is a native extension (hence my handful of times using C++) to do some specific functionality. Backends have always been some kind of managed language like C#/Java/JavaScript via Node.js. Knowing about actual memory management is becoming a niche thing.I thinkNoodleface does firmware iirc
I see this in my field too. There is a major difference between an engineer and somebody who only learned Unity to make games. I always go for the actual engineer and teach them what they don't know about Unity. Way easier than teaching a Unity guy about non shitty programming.
Idk what point youre trying to make. C is still used quite a bit in embedded among other places. Did you have a bad experience with pointers that gave you PTSD or something? Sounds like you have a very narrow focus of the software world.
No point other than agreeing that finding people with experience with memory management is becoming harder and harder because it isn't really taught in school and lots of fields use languages that never have to worry about memory management so it further reduces the pool of people that have experience with it. Sorry to break into your pity party of shitting on people.
Fair enough. They’re teaching all the kids python now for CS. I’ll agree to that. Unless you comp Eng or EE where you’ll touch more embedded. Calm your tits son. We’re all Pals here.
nah. I do remember learning assembly in undergrad. Oof. Worked in the C world for 4 years and now Java. Couldn’t be happier.
