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Matt Ellen • Edited

So you can say, to your great grandkids, as they're writing in AmazonMongoose4000

I remember when computers had to be told how to manage their memory or they'd try and reach out of their allocated stack space and overflow.
Kids today using the yottaHz megacores with exabytes of RAM, you got it easy. With your mind reading development environments and your petabit peer to peer wetware.
You'll never know what it's like to accidentally point to something off the heap and get a segfault. Malloc, free, new, delete, they're like foreign words to you. When I was your age I had to be careful with my resources.
I miss those days. Before we were required to upload our consciousnesses to HyperGlobalMegacorp, when I could close my eyes. 👴