• zer0@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The use of it quite limited in the every-day coders life. People acting like they be using 500TB databases these days.

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      1 year ago

      I use uints every day at work. They’re very useful for cases when you’ve only got a single byte or two bytes to work with. E.g. an 8-bit int will only get you to a max of 127, but of course an unsigned 8-bit gets you to 255. Similar concept with 16/32/64s. Very useful when you’re working with small amounts of available memory, such as when writing code to go on ASICs.