Stop comparing programming languages

I'm guessing they meant "old" as in "no one uses it anymore, it's dead"

I once forgot to put curly braces around the thing I was adding into a hashmap. If I remember correctly it was like ~300 lines of error code, non of which said "Wrong shit inside the function call ma dude".

The only reason to use AI in programming is to simplify C++ error messages.

Crates aren't exactly runtime dependencies, so i think that's fine as long as the 1500+ dependencies actually help prevent reinventing the wheel 1500+ times

I'll happily download 63928 depends so long as it continues to work. And it does, unlike python projects that also download 2352 depends but in the process brick every other python program on your system

fixed ive using rust for a while

actually it says 8h meaning it's only 8 hours old

Lol any

I tried, but the infrastructure collapsed on me.

What Crockford did was enable a lot of devs to realize there was a viable development platform built into the most prolific and open network client in the world. For that he should be commended but it should have never been taken as "this is a viable general purpose language".

I have no idea.

That’s why Haskell is so loved. Nobody uses it.

Oof, slow compile times to target, of all things, the JVM? Implicit methods? Some(null)? Function call syntax where the difference between a tuple argument and a sequence of non-tuple arguments can be determined by whether or not there's a space before the parentheses?

There are definitely some major issues with Scala.

By running everthing in a single thread obviously. Won't get more powerful than that

good luck doing frontend development without it, but it can also do backend development

it can do everything

IIRC JavaScript + TypeScript is the biggest demographic of engineers in the industry if you go by GitHub stats

I suppose you could call that power in a way

This is true of every language. If you can't think of things you don't like about the language you're working in (and/or its tooling) you just don't know the language very well or are in denial.

JavaScript is also not fine.

C++ apparently has a lot of footguns if you use too many parts of it. C and orthodox C++ are fine.

Don't give them ideas

When the standard for "robust" is Java--

Calling Terry racist is ableist. He was very much equal opportunity, applying the hard r to pale white CIA agents (imagined or otherwise).

The ecosystem is really it, C# as a language isn't the best, objectively Typescript is a much more developer friendly and globally type safe (at design time) language. It's far more versatile than C# in that regard, to the point where there is almost no comparison.

But holy hell the .Net ecosystem is light-years ahead, it's so incredibly consistent across major versions, is extremely high quality, has consistent and well considered design advancements, and is absolutely bloody fast. Tie that in with first party frameworks that cover most of all major needs, and it all works together so smoothly, at least for web dev.

I shit on JavaScript for years... but Deno (built around Rust) is honestly one of the most pleasant tools I've used for development, and you get all the completion in VS Code.

Oh, trust me, Qt is still primarily C++. It's effectively a massive set of C++ libraries.

What happens if I run paint splatters through OCR? Hmmmmm that random output looks like Perl. Holy shit it is Perl!

This actually happening is one reason I love the internet.

You can't replace it.

Zig?

Inertia is a mofo. I did embedded programming for industrial automation almost thirty years ago, building upon and expanding an existing nightmare of C code... and I bet there's still some of mine running something out there to this day.

Genuine question: if you're writing a new CLI utility, why not Rust? This is arguably where Rust has most excelled, most famously with ripgrep.

The majority of microwaves, fridges, etc. Still don't connect to WiFi. It's mostly the high end ones which do.

That's the kind of insight I was hoping for, thanks for sharing!

C is also just a fun language to code in. You know, aside from pointers ofc:-). Though I have never done more than dabble around personally.

It isn't just a language, but it is a language - as it eventually gets around to saying, but it starts off by saying that it isn't, then later corrects itself to say that it is, etc. I feel like the focus of this ignores the historical context of what C was written to be for - at the time there was like Assembly, BASIC, Fortran (?), other long-dead languages like was it A and/or A* or whatever, there was a B language too! (developed by Bell Labs, if Google can be trusted these days), etc. - and C was developed to be better than those. So saying that like it lacks type conversions is very much missing the point - those were not invented yet. A lawn mower also lacks those, but it's okay bc it doesn't need them:-) I am probably nit-picking far too many points, I suppose to illustrate that the style of the article became a hindrance to me to read it b/c of those reasons. But thank you for sharing regardless.

I keep seeing people talk about Rust, and to be honest I never thought much about it because I've never had a reason to use it.

But when so many people in a programmer meme sub are saying "actually no joke Rust is amazing" that makes me pay attention.

So I looked into it and found this: https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-language-among-developers/

I believe the trade-offs make Rust the best option to replace C++. Now, i'm not sure about Zig replacing C yet...