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  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    18 hours ago

    Enlightenment is realizing that variables don’t have nor need a type, they are all just arrays of bits.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Are you the person who’s writing these APIs that just return dynamically generated untyped JSON that I need to deal with on my team at work? Typing absolutely matters and I will die on this hill

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        How can my JSON response have any concept of Type? If I return a number and you treat it is a string, my API doesn’t have any concept of that. Now in the actual spec of the API I could say that specific URI will return an int, but it’s up to your side to classify the array of bits as an int instead of a str.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
      10·
      14 hours ago

      True enlightenment is realizing that variables don’t exist, it’s all just a sequence of bits in RAM that we assign meaning to as desired.

      Ascension is realizing that bits don’t exist, it’s all just trapped electrons in transistors which we imagine to be bits.

      Transcendence is realizing that transistors or code doesn’t exist, and it’s just some quarks and electrons attracted and repulsed by weird forces, vibrating and convulsing in a soup with entropy constantly rising until the heat death of the universe, of which we make futile attempts to make sense or purpose.