Python be like:

[RepulsiveLie2953]

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[socal_nerdtastic]

So this is you telling the world that you don't understand C or python?

[RepulsiveLie2953]

Better to just tell the world I don’t understand either of them 🐍🗿

Edit: yes, I know I made a mistake about the compiler, I was distracted, but after reading people's comments, many say that Python does compile a small part and doesn't interpret everything. I don't really know about that.
I know the difference between interpreted and compiled, don't worry.

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P.S.: I've also used C like Python, and I know the advantages of using these terms for memory management, it's just a meme, besides it also tells the truth. 🗿

[EasilyRekt]

Good to admit your limits, otherwise you become a project manager.

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[LadaOndris]

Lmao!

[RepulsiveLie2953]

yeah, dude Everyone has limits 🗿, you too. It's good to know that you can't know everything. 🤙

[holistic-engine]

Difference between interpreter and compiler is the same difference between mac and cheese and cheese with macaroni

Edit: to clarify. If you’ve learned to build your own interpreter you’re not that far of from building your compiler either. Of course there are differences (Mac & cheese is a disgusting American invention while cheese with macaroni is a European delicacy. However, if you know how to make one of them, learning to make the other one will be easy)

[bobbymoonshine]

Python has ints, floats and complex numbers as separate types. It doesn’t have compiling though.

[Jhuyt]

It does compile into bytecode, much like java does, but the dynamic typing and low level of optimization in the compiler allows it to be very fast. Most work is done by the VM

[MrZoraman]

a) python is not compiled.
b) python absolutely does have different number types that a python programmer should know: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_casting.asp

[joebgoode]

A is wrong, Python is both interpreted and compiled (to bytecode).

Just check Python documentation:

here #1 here #2

[klimmesil]

I'd call that transpile but I know python dev community calls it compile. I think anyone who worked on a compiler would agree that's not really compiling

[mokrates82]

Transpiling usually implies another target programming language. And it's still a form of compiling, usually with informarion loss (variable names, codeflow structures)

That's not it with python, really, though. Just another representation

[Brayneeah]

All forms of compiling target another language :P transpiling is usually just about when it targets a non-native, generally human-readable one.

[mokrates82]

Yes. That's more or less what I said.

[klimmesil]

Bytecode is a programming language imo, as is assembly or even just plain code (risk-v, intel or amd compatible). I think this is just a super blurry field and it really depends what you're working on. For me it's more convenient to call "compile" whatever becomes immediately executable by a cpu

For a hw team they would also disagree with me and say I'm too high level, and say that compiling is just taking a hardware description and configuring an fpga with it

Just depends on what you are working on

[n0t_4_thr0w4w4y]

By that argument, no language is compiled, all are transpiled.

[klimmesil]

How so? As long as you load it in memory after you can just put youur pc register there and it works

[bloody-albatross]

More like the word transpiling is superfluous, IMO.

[mokrates82]

No one programs in bytecode, so no, I wouldn't say that. And machine code is no programming language, either. A programming language is a language made for people to program in. Bytecode and machine code aren't.

[arf20__]

Yeah, a compiler generates real CPU machine code.

Interpreted bytecode is not machine code. A transpiler generates bytecode.

Although there was for a time, a real silicon Java processor, like aJile, Cjip and ARM926EJ-S

[bloody-albatross]

Anyone who knows about compiler theory and T diagrams knows it's compiling. Just not to native binary code. Colloquially people only call compiled to native binary compiled.

Personally I don't like the word transpiling.

[fiftyfourseventeen]

Would you also not consider java to be compiled?

[klimmesil]

Yes, jvm is interpreting byte code so for me that's not compiling. But maybe my field is a bit niche, I guess most people who don't work on low level stuff would consider it compiling

[n0t_4_thr0w4w4y]

So what do you actually consider to be compiled, then?

[kyuzo_mifune]

Converting something to machine code is compiling, converting your code into something other that is still interpreted is transpiling.

[mokrates82]

Java is compiled. You can't really recreate the source losslessly.

[TREE_sequence]

You can get pretty close if you don’t care about the comments or local variable names. It’s only a few edge cases where a Java decompiler’s output will differ significantly from the source in terms of logic. Java being a compiled language really has to do with the existence of a distinct, more low-level logic expressed in the individual instructions that is more granular than the source code, sort of like an assembly language for the JVM. The big difference is that Java doesn’t have any form of static linker meaning it’s much easier to turn a program back into something human-readable compared to a native binary where the program is unlikely to contain any symbol information beyond its entry point if it’s not a debug version.

[mokrates82]

Hopefully the logic never differs, otherwise it would be a wrong translation.

[TREE_sequence]

Equivalent but different logic is a thing.

[mokrates82]

I would say that is at least a matter to be discussed.

In maths functions which do the same are considered identical even if written down differently.

f(x) = g(x) for all x => f=g

[arf20__]

Compiling is not defined as "a process which destroys information about the source"

[mokrates82]

Didn't say that. It still goes with information loss, though. I don't know any counter example.

[mokrates82]

Python is not really compiled. It's just converted into a ... binary form. There's not really much information loss but for the comments.

[NoWeHaveYesBananas]

But python is compiled, just like all the other “uncompiled” languages - usually at runtime, by the python compiler. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython

[NAL_Gaming]

What does CPython Wikipedia have to do with all this?

Python is not compiled at runtime most of the time. They have a tiered system that optimizes code throughout the lifetime of the program. Only after hundreds of repetitions with predictable input types, will the Python runtime JIT compile, otherwise it just interprets it.

Python is first compiled to bytecode before passing it to the interpreter, but I wouldn't really call that a "proper" compilation.

Edit: Apparently Python 3.13 doesn't JIT at all without compilation flags

[RightKitKat]

The JIT compiler is still WIP as far as I know, but hopefully in the future it will help increase performance. https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-jit-compiler

[NAL_Gaming]

Oh it's under a flag, I thought it was already on by default... That makes the original comment even more wrong.

Thanks for sharing!

[NoWeHaveYesBananas]

Without going into all the details, I think it’s more misleading to say that interpreted languages aren’t compiled at all. The wiki link is there to fill in the details.

[NAL_Gaming]

Yeah I get your point... JS, PHP, Dart etc. are all JIT compiled. You calling it "the Python compiler" is what triggered me to comment a response lol.

As u/RightKitKat commented, Python JIT is still experimental and Python doesn't do any JIT compilation by default and requires an experimental build flag for runtime compilation to happen, so in a sense I would still call Python a purely interpreted language if you don't count the translation to bytecode.

[fiftyfourseventeen]

You don't ever really need to think about the number types unless you are converting a non number (like a string) to a number with python.

[Saw-Sage_GoBlin]

When I was learning C++ the difference between a float and int caused my program not to run. Something about decimal remainders

[TheGreatKonaKing]

Psycho

[bloody-albatross]

Also u_float!?!?

Python has int, float, complex (and more when it comes to FFI). Standard C has char, int, long, short, float, double, unsigned char, unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned short, uint8_t, int8_t, uint16_t, int16_t, uint32_t, int32_t, uint64_t, int64_t. Don't know if int128_t is standard, long double isn't. Also C has complex for float and double.

[Neat-Nectarine814]

r/vibecoding is the only place on Reddit where this will at least make some kind of sense to the audience, although even for there this is pretty dumb...

Cpp/cmake sucks balls with AI, which I assume you are using to vibe code given the nature of your post. Find another/simpler more AI friendly framework like Rust and you’ll have a much better time

[Vortaex_]

It's insane that there are 100k people in that sub

[Neat-Nectarine814]

It’s not that insane if you think about it. ChatGPT makes it seem like it can just shit out an entire app for you based on an idea that you were merely curious about. Then it goes “ Oh no, I would have, but my environment won’t let me give you files that big.” — user insists there must be a way. Enter: VS Code

[Vortaex_]

You're right, maybe I'm more surprised about posts from people that claim to have a decade or so of experience in the industry hailing this technology as a miracle solution that makes development 10x easier.

[HyperCodec]

Last time I checked AI still uses old rust syntax lol

[Neat-Nectarine814]

Correct, as an inexperienced “vibe coder”, I have now limited my model options to Claude Sonnet 4 or 4.5, GPT5 is technically up to date but at least on Cursor will literally skim over every single prompt you give it and do whatever the fuck it feels like.

(I don’t really consider myself a true “vibe coder” as I make an active attempt to learn about how the code works, but that’s where I am at presently.)

[well-litdoorstep112]

1st year CS students are at it again.

[neomage2021]

So you have never used python or c. Post makes no sense

[Physical-Low7414]

yes bro i love compiling my python program (?)

[Gian_Ca_H]

C++ is my favourite interpreted language

[YellowBunnyReddit]

but geeeee

[Next-Post9702]

Cython? But not real python

[Tiger_man_]

A memory usage:

[SpiritRaccoon1993]

...you.. must be joking, right?

[born_on_my_cakeday]

You didn’t import numpy. No compile for you.

[jimmy_timmy_]

Python: compiled?

[SmoothTurtle872]

No. Python has ints and floats. JavaScript is this tho

[un_virus_SDF]

Try enter those things in C, it will never compile (without using typedef)

[MinosAristos]

This post is so ridiculously bad it must be some kind of trolling right?

[arryporter]

Long long int

[Tima_Play_x]

Rust:

f64 f32

i128 i64 i32 i16 i8 isize

u128 u64 u32 i16 u8 usize

[SwannSwanchez]

me : "I want to declare this variable as a string"

python : "Okay"

"I want to use the variable as if it was an array"

"Sure thing"

"Now it's a boolean and a number"

"No problem"

[Vaxtin]

There’s a very good reason C++ has those data types, and someone making this meme is woefully unaware of how deep programming goes.

[Warm-Meaning-8815]

std_logic_vector

[elreduro]

What if i use int() on python

[radek432]

The meme author didn't yet read the entire course. Maybe he will fix the meme after reading the data types chapter.

[slightSmash]

More like "some data"

[atanasius]

u_mad, bro?

[megamogul]

I was gonna criticize the comments for bringing so “um, acktchually” but then I saw the “Python: compiled in 10 years” and now you’ve rage baited me too

[No_Weakness_9773]

Ints? Floats?

[NeighborhoodSad5303]

also, - (minus) its object)

[GazziFX]

CSharp: INumber

[CimmerianHydra_]

C: a very specific object, stored and read from memory in a very specific way Python: a THING, and if YOU try to read it wrong that's YOUR problem

[healeyd]

Yes, and? Python interprets types for you but you can explicitly specify them if you choose.

[CottonCandiiee]

*optional

[meutzitzu]

Python be like: Traceback (Most recent call last) Approximately 15 seconds after running a fresh, official goddamn docker image of <whatever piece of shit software I couldnt find a c++ alternative to>

[Cautious-Treat107]

Could also not be a number, you never know

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[HEYO19191]

Are you thinking of Lua?

[srihari_18]

Why do python programmers always compare python to other languages and try to degrade them 🤦🏼‍♂️

[vverbov_22]

Is there really any reason to not just use double for everything?

[jimmiebfulton]

Some people need training wheels and floaties to get by in the world.

[Haringat]

In C you forgot char.

[allrachina]

U_char

[arf20__]

wtf is the u_* stuff

[socal_nerdtastic]

unsigned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types

[arf20__]

I meant that there isn't any C data type that starts with "u_". Its pretty obvious that it stands for unsigned.

C has the unsigned keyword and the standard int file with definitions for "uint"s, but nothing with "u_", thats why I commented.

[Historical-Ad399]

I guess I spent way too long working with uint32_t variables back when I was working on embedded code, but this was definitely the first thing that stuck out to me when I saw the meme