this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
700 points (92.3% liked)

Programmer Humor

32710 readers
288 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

No offence

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And just like in Metal Gear, he dies of old age if you wait a bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

C is old, ubiquitous and still does not have a good replacement for its low-level cross-platform usecases, so I'll believe it when I see it ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] anewbeginning 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say "need", but there are possible improvements to ergonomics and safety that wouldn't make the language itself more complex or high level. I think it does its job quite well though and will be here for decades to come.

[โ€“] TristanFi 1 points 1 year ago

I've been hearing interesting things about Zig

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Ada has been around since 1983 and is objectively superior. Yes I will die on that hill.

It's too bad programmers are all such egotards they think they can write bugfree programs in C, while whining about how "restrictive" a safe language like Ada is.