Christine Lemmer-Webber19h ago

"A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs" on the frontpage of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520807

Oh sounds nice and lightweight, good to have more allocator options

Oh wait this is 10k lines long and one commit and this person's first project

Oh look so many parentheses it makes me, a lisper, feel overwhelmed https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/master/spaces.c#L4713

So tired of bumping into slop everywhere

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Show threadTrammell Hudson18h ago
@cwebber you can "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" allocation failures. https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1040
Show threadTrammell Hudson18h ago
@cwebber did you know that if you wrap if statements with double curly braces they get extra special secret powers? https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1649
Show threadDawn Ahukanna

@th @cwebber

How does anyone “brag and boast” about such syntactic garbage?
and
worse, how does the so-called “intelligent” system produce this nonsense (that has been “imprinted” by most, if not all publicly available code)?

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