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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago

Exactly. And what is the best tool? The best tool for the job

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 36 points 1 month ago

And what is the best tool?

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[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

No silly! It's clearly a goat, possibly a whole farm of them

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

That's just not terribly meaningful, though. Was JavaScript the "best tool" for client-side logic from the death of Flash until the advent of TypeScript? No, it was the only tool.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're halfway there.

Yes, it was the best tool, in context

In that context, what was better?

[-] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly, the hivemind is strong in this thread

[-] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

If it was the only tool it was both the best and the worst by definition.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Flash was awful. I was contracted to un-fuck a custom video player and that experience convinced me that Flash was a dumpster fire that needed to die. Fortunately it did.