I haven’t done much low level stuff, but I think the ‘main’ function is something the compiler uses to establish an entry point for the compiled binary. The name ‘main’ would not exist in the compiled binary at all, but the function itself would still exist. Executable formats aren’t all the same, so they’ll have different ways of determining where this entry point function is expected to be. You can ‘run’ a binary library file by invoking a function contained therein, which is how DLL files work.

Yeah, he was bamboozled as soon as he agreed to allow multiple separate files. The challenge was bs from the start, but he could have at least nailed it down with more explicit language and by forbidding any exceptions. I think it’s kind of ironic that the instructions for a challenge related to different representations of information failed themselves to actually convey the intended information.

Love watching his videos, they go way beyond your average music production youtuber content. I generally think generative AI is an awesome tool in itself, but that it’s too ripe for the perversion of capitalistic greed. Like Jordan said in the video, it’s pretty disgusting to ingest years worth of hard work and dedication from many artists and then use the resulting model to compete with those same artists. I optimistically predict that the current approach to AI will never do much better than the grey slop it currently shits out, though.

Yeah but like, what new features do apps have which weren’t available in those times? Embedded videos maybe? Doesn’t justify the bloat.

As someone who works with typescript daily, you’re not wrong. It’s an extremely overcomplicated glorified linter that tries and mostly succeeds in catching basic type errors. But it also provides false confidence when you concoct something that shows no errors but doesn’t behave how you expect.

I don’t speak C, but isn’t this an extreme simplification of the issue? I thought memory could be abused in an almost infinite number of subtle ways outside of allocating it wrong. For example, improperly sanitized string inputs. I feel like if it were this easy, it would have been done decades ago.