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  • Python is versatile
  • JavaScript is powerful
  • Ruby is elegant
  • C is essential
  • C++
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[–] [email protected] 194 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • PHP is old
  • HTML is NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE!!!
  • CSS is
    ︎ ︎ ︎ not alig-

︎ ︎ ︎ ned

[–] dohpaz42 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

PHP is old

Same age as Ruby, Java and JavaScript, but younger than Python, C, and C++. 😛

[–] Guydht 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile PHP quietly runs 80% of the internet by being used for WordPress.

[–] dohpaz42 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don’t tell my bosses that. Or the PHP community as a whole for that matter. Then I might have to get a real job.

[–] ripcord 32 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry. If you exclude the millions of sites using it, it is virtually unused.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)
  • Python is NameError: name 'term_to_describe_python' is not defined

  • JavaScript is [object Object]

  • Ruby is TypeError: Int can't be coerced into String

  • C is segmentation fault

  • C++

  • Java is

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read the termToDescribeJava because is null at ThrowNullExcep.main(ThrowNullExcep.java:7)
Exec.main(ThrowNullExcep.java:7) 
  • CSS j ust # sucks
  • Kotlin is type inference failed. The value of the type parameter K should be mentioned in input types
  • Go is unused variable
  • Rust is Compiling term v0.1.0 (/home/james/projects/Term)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

C++ is std::__cxx11::list<std::__shared_ptr<table, (__gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)0>, std::allocator<std::__shared_ptr<table, (__gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)0> > >::erase(std::_List_const_iterator<std::__shared_ptr<table, (__gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)0> >) /usr/include/c++/12/bits/list.tcc:158

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Mfw Rustaceans don't exist :(

Also, JavaScript...why are you the way you are? Does anyone have advice for learning it so it makes sense? I can't even get tutorial projects to run properly...

[–] davidgro 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This meme is older than rust.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It will be 8 hours old forever.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

use typescript and don't look too hard at the infrastructure

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I like Douglas Crockford’s talks about the “good parts” of JavaScript. They’re old and probably a bit outdated, but he explain quite well the history and why JavaScript is the way like it is.

It clicked for me when I saw them the first time. Still hate JavaScript though.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

The mantra that got me through JavaScript was "almost nothing we do here is able to be synchronous".

Everything about the language makes more sense, with that context.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Just accept it, all languages suck

[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago

ITT: Rust programmers rewriting the joke in Rust.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are those adjectives randomly chosen?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, JavaScript powerful? How?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (12 children)

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

it can do everything

[–] RoyaltyInTraining 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The thing it can do best is bewilder developers with it's strange choices

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

but it can also do backend development

The same way a rusty spoon can dig a hole, sure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That makes it versatile, not powerful.

When I hear powerful language, I think of languages that are good at intensive tasks like assembly, c, rust, Python (because of numpy, pandas, pyspark, cuda, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Python is powerful because it easily wraps C libraries that do real work! Just kidding mostly.

But yeah, js isn't a language I would describe as powerful. Ubiquitous? More capable than you would expect given it's history? Bloated?

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[–] pelya 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

C++ is OVERWHELMINGLY SUPERIOR, if you ask any professional C++ developer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was a professional C++ developer for several years, and came to the conclusion that any professional C++ developers who don't acknowledge its flaws have a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] BrokenGlepnir 32 points 3 months ago

There was an adjective for C++. It's just the pointer was dropped.

[–] umbraroze 30 points 3 months ago

JavaScript is powerful

Old joke (yes, you can tell):

"JavaScript: You shoot yourself in the foot. If using Netscape, your arm falls off. If using Internet Explorer, your head explodes."

[–] psycho_driver 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

C is powerful. Javascript is a husky midwestern gal at a Chinese buffet.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

C++ is a surprise CVE generator.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] DarkCloud 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

C++ is focused on getting a strong degree of root control over the hardware of lots of systems. Which is part of why it's difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

what about Holy C? is it only usable to people that are actually god choosen programmers?

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[–] Kushan 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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[–] reillypascal 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The only reason I use C++ is because that's what all the main audio plugin tools use. It's warty and annoying, although I'm confused why Java would rank higher

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So we just ignore JavaScript being on that list at sll?

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 12 points 3 months ago

Ruby is just happy to be included

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • Rust has safety and efficiency close to C
  • Perl is processing most of your healthcare records
  • Ada is doing space stuff
  • Go is going places
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