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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 94 points 8 months ago

Also, almost all of that is written in C, which is a successor to B, which is a simplified version of the Basic Combined Programming Language. There was never an A.

[-] Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 56 points 8 months ago

Assembly.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Ding ding.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Is there a D?

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 27 points 8 months ago

Yes, but I'm not sure if we want to open the "programming language can of worms".

There's B, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, D, E, F, F#, F* and so many more. Also, they may or may not have anything to do with each other

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago

But of course Java and Javascript are related /s

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 9 points 8 months ago

The number of job applications using Java as a shorthand for Javascript.....

[-] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I once had a C# dev tell me they couldn’t run JavaScript because they didn’t have Java installed.

[-] jyte@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Also I've read that C# is C++++ (like put those + on 2x2 table, which in turns ressemble a #)

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 8 months ago

Hahaha I've never heard that before. Seems legit.

C# was originally "Java: The Good Parts" but but these days it's a much more advanced language and runtime compared to Java.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago

As a dev who works on both Java and C# code, modern Java (17+) and C# feel almost exactly the same (not sure if Java has extension methods though).

Bonus points for using Kotlin instead tho. I dislike both Java and C# just because they both allow any object to be null and that's usually a headache whenever a null exception shows up.

The only thing I like better about C# is the Fixture library for testing. I haven't found any mature libraries like it for Java yet.

[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 8 months ago

they both allow any object to be null and that's usually a headache whenever a null exception shows up.

C# has nullable reference types now: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-references. If you enable it, you have to explicitly make reference types nullable (like ?string) and you'll get build warnings if you try to use a variable that's potentially null.