“What’s your go-to tool as a programmer these days?”
My brain, same as it always has been!
I’m a big fan of my keyboard
The Universal Serial Bus is pretty good shit. Plug n Play is a great feature.
Although not really useful, I simply love RGB lighting in the keyboard.
Same, i don’t like south-facing RGB though; at the right angle they peak out behind keycaps and just drill me right in the damn eye (photosensitivity sucks…). That and the lack of dedicated indicator LEDs for caps/num lock are the only things i don’t like about my current keychron keyboard.
I’m going to count vim, or any other IDE as a tool. You don’t just will your thoughts into the computer (at least most people don’t, that I know).
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/378/
Did someone say emacs? https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
I astrally project my thoughts into the PC.
Global variables
Goto is evil.
Unless you’re programming in assembly
I mean, in C too.
I used it when I wrote some throwaway C++ code working with SQLite. Since it had no RAII (and I had no intention of writing my own wrapper), I had to manually cleanup multiple resources somehow. If at least one resource failed to initialize, I had to deinitialize the ones that didn’t fail. It was either
gotoor a bunch of flags to track what is initialized.gotolooked more elegant.I misremembered the whole thing. It was still related to cleaning up after a failure, but there was only one resource I had to deal with. That’s how it looks like:
sqlite3 *db; int r; r = sqlite3_open("./data.db", &db); if (r) { std::cerr << "Can't open the database: " << sqlite3_errmsg(db) << std::endl; return r; } r = sqlite3_exec(db, "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS foo(...);", nullptr, nullptr, nullptr); if (r != SQLITE_OK) { std::cerr << "Can't create a table called foo: " << sqlite3_errmsg(db) << std::endl; goto out; } // a few more sqlite3_exec calls; // some sqlite3_prepare_v2 calls combined with sqlite3_bind_* and sqlite3_step calls // for repeated queries. out: sqlite3_close(db); return r;
goto in assembly? nah, might as well JMP
Yeah, it’s not called goto, but it’s functionally the same.
but very useful!
I am the tool 😎 wait
I was gonna say gcc, but you do you, bro…
Leatherman.
Brand new sentence
