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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] docAvid@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You seem to have missed the important phrase "in source code", as well as the entire second part of my comment discussing that runtime functions that parse user input are different.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

You seem to have missed the important phrase “in source code”

I read that, but I thought it was a useless qualifier, because everything is source code. You probably meant “in a literal”.