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Which programming language is hard to understand? (suppo.fi)
submitted 11 months ago by Albin7326@suppo.fi to c/programming@programming.dev
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[โ€“] miversen33@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A pointer is nothing but an integer that "points to" a memory location.

They can feel intimidating because it's really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.