Had another conversation about pass-by-ref vs pass-by-value and why passing an object in something like C# or JS doesn't copy the object. Feels like this comes up every few months.
Always takes a bit of a struggle to explain what a pointer is to someone who's programmed for years without ever using one directly.
Obviously not a big problem, but it always makes me wonder what actually makes for the better abstraction.
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