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John Carmack on mutable variables

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498 points azhenley | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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shmerl ◴[31 Oct 25 03:29 UTC] No.45768080[source]▶
Proposing making immutable by default in C or C++ doesn't make sense due to backwards compatibility reasons. New languages like Rust have easier time making better choices with immutable by default.
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1. _flux ◴[31 Oct 25 16:02 UTC] No.45773596[source]▶
Maybe the new C++ profiles that are supposedly going to make C++ a safe language could do it.