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8 days agoYou’re arguing that it’s not legitimate for someone who is doing work and running servers for free to prompt you to donate?
Principal Engineer for Accumulate
You’re arguing that it’s not legitimate for someone who is doing work and running servers for free to prompt you to donate?
Your options are:
AFAIK there are no other options
I’m talking about C#'s unsafe keyword. It lets you do pointer shenanigans.
Java is the top, C# is the bottom. The Java language designers consider unsigned integers harmful (and this). They’re basically saying “You could hurt yourself with this so we’re taking it away.” I find that patronizing and disrespectful. On the other hand C# and Go tell you, “Yo bro, doing pointer math and direct memory manipulation is not safe, but I’m not gonna stop you.”
This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc
You’re using services they provide for free. They can do whatever the fuck they want.