Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.
The women fighting are labeled "mathematicians defining pi" and "engineers just using 3 because it's within tolerance"
The man smoking is labeled "astrophysicists" and the pipe is labeled "pi = 1"
as an engineer, a lot of languages (even proprietary ones) have a built-in constant pi variable because it is so ubiquitous - its easier and more readable to use pi than 3........
And then you’re using C++ and they scold you for including cmath for just M_PI because it increases compilation times.
We're talking about engineers here! We're using MATLAB or Python if we're programming at all.
You can't say that for all engineers. I'm one and the biggest part of my job is programming in C++
Just wanted to say something similar. Any low latency high frequency code is written in c++, c or assembler. And that’s engineers work usually.
[glares in rust]
Still want to try rust but in my field it’s just not established enough unfortunately. But I love the idea of the language.
honestly, my rust comment was mostly a joke; rust is great for it, but its readability is really bad. i'm not a huge fan of writing/reading it, just using it.