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by pjmlp 781 days ago
The joy of debugging memory corruption issues on production, while helpdesk keeps pinging dev team several times a day.

Yep, I have multiple scars and gray hairs due to them.

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> Yep, I have multiple scars and gray hairs due to them.

Look on the bright side: at least you have your hair :-)

I swore off C++ because (maybe coincidentally, maybe not) I started losing hair around the time I was a f/time C++ developer.

I'm liking Go and C# (and some Java and Kotlin, sometimes) these days for programs that are not suitable to be written in plain C.

I've tried liking Python/PHP type languages, but getting a type error only when it is encountered in production gives me the heeby-jeebies.