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Someone decided to call you after you had 2,147,483,647 missed calls lol
Found the nerd
As a software developer, I thought your answer was hilarious.
Why use a signed integer for something strictly non-negative (ignoring bugs ofc)?
It doesn’t really make sense especially since other apps like mail just say idk 9999+ at some point (maybe higher or lower, I’m no maniac letting it get there)
It's just rounded down to 9999 in the ui but internally the exact number is still counted
Some developers get lazy and just use an int for everything it's not really a big deal anyway
Ask that question to Java
It's always better to use signed for absolutely everything unless you're dealing with a very edge case
Because it is all written in a language that only has signed numbers. That's virtually all modern languages.
Swift (used for Apple devices) has them (see the Integers section):
https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/thebasics/
So it was actually written in a language that has them...
C# has them (goes without saying)
Java doesn't seem to.
This is still clearly far from "virtually all."
Wouldn't it wrap around to -2,147,483,648 though? It'd take nearly four billion calls to get all the way up to -1 if it's signed 32-bit wrap around...
That’s exactly what I was thinking too