... Oh. Uh. How badly would everyone hate me if I wrote a paper that allowed T foo[2]; and T[2] foo; to mean the same thing as far as type declarations go in C?

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ah. So the reason every zip/appimage/flatpak explodes is because I'm on an exotic CPU arch (arm), and probably why they mostly just fizzle out silently when I try to invoke them. Most contain solely i686 and x64 stuff inside, but nothing for me. I'll just shut up; a normal computer would've worked.

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Hot C take: no string library anyone writes is going to be good enough for general-purpose use without a real slice type.

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I think the thing that pisses me off the most is just how obscenely much I have to do to make C, and C++, reach the bar people keep claiming it hits. And it just feels like a huge vortex of work, like when you accidentally scope creep your development process to the sun.

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annoying: local foxgirl feels more agenty than usual, still can't think of anything to work on

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