Data types do matter, and someone’s got to declare them at some point, or else your compiler won’t know how to intepret them. It’s just a question of who should be doing the declaring: you, or a parser algorithm? Personally, I don’t like things being done for me.

The c build system that comes with visual studio. You pretty much have no choice but to use it if you’re writting c on windows.

Classic microsoft, making the worst possible version of something, and somehow finding a way to force everyone to use it.

They clearly don’t consider their human capital to be all that important if they’re relagating hiring to ai. Take it as a signal that your value is too high for this company. Chaces are they would prefer to hire 2 year grads or bootcampers over experienced engineers.

I’ve wondered why programming languages don’t include accurate fractions as part of their standard utils. I don’t mind calling dc, but I wish I didn’t need to write a bash script to pipe the output of dc into my program.