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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Not exactly. In C you have to do everything by hand. There's a ton of weird, badly fitting parts and stuff that doesn't really make sense.
With Python stuff just works. I worked as a Python developer for almost 10 years (switched to Java and Kotlin in the meantime). There have been hardly any real WTF moments over the whole time.
I use C/C++ for my hobby stuff (I do a lot of hobby microcontroller development) and there's tons of weird gotchas that I would have never imagined (e.g. a missing return statement not getting flagged by the compiler, which it really should, but instead semi-crashing the program at runtime).
Python is slower, but as long as you have a project where performance doesn't matter, it's day and night. It's like working with something that was purposely designed by someone who has somewhat of an idea what they are doing, compared to C/C++ which feels like something that just happened.
In my hobby stuff I now added a Lua interpreter for a kind-of app system, and while Lua is an incredibly bare-bones language it still runs laps around C/C++ when it comes to usability.
Maybe to make the metaphor of the dude before me more poignant: C feels like your granddad's kit car that you inherited. C++ feels like you got the same kit car after the neighbourhood crackhead had it for a few years and bolted all sorts of weird accessories onto it and did a lot of "tuning".