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		IshKebab on June 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I still recommend Julia Yeah I always thought that "make everything immutable!" was partly - maybe even mostly - a workaround for the fact that it's so hard to copy data in most languages. I agree C++ makes it too easy to accidentally copy data, but at least you can copy data!

adgjlsfhk1 on June 27, 2022 [–]

but the only reason you want to copy data is that it makes manual memory management easier. otherwise paying a reference is almost always cheaper.

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