It is so weird when people idolize programming languages. They are all flawed and they all encourage some bad design patterns. Just chill and pick yours.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but that makes it sound like they're all equal, and there hasn't been any progression, which is untrue. You're either insane or a historical reenactor if you write something new in COBOL.

I think Rust is genuinely a huge leap forwards compared to C/C++. Maybe one day it will be shitty and obsolete, and at the very least it will become a boring standard option, but for now...

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I now want a community led historical reenactment of loose tie wearing software devs in the 60s where they are just chain smoking and banging out COBOL or Fortran punch cards

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

I don't think much happens in person, but the community for it definitely exists.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It really whips the crab's ass.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

they actually said it?