When the revolution comes we need to unify the programming languages (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Seriously. There’s so many floating around. It feels like there’s a cycle of

Random programmer thinks xyz language sucks -> she/he makes a slightly different, slightly faster, slightly more secure version -> by luck this gains mass adoption-> random programmer thinks new xyz language sucks

I propose when the revolution comes and the last guillotine falls we decide a general-purpose programming language that coders should stick to. I vote Lisp or any of the dialects (scheme, clojure, racket), but i also feel something about the Julia language for scientific research. Maybe we can decriminalize using C. Absolutely ban and hunt down the use of any of the hipster languages teenagers are into these days.

Nim? Zig? Crystal?? I am absolutely losing my damn mind. It compiles to bytecode people. Make up ur damn minds. To jail with all of u

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's a lot of languages but people usually have a favorite that probably isn't very unique lol

There's no such thing as a universal language but we can build better languages (and operating systems) that dominate

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

There are THAT many people coding in assembly? There's no way. I refuse to believe it.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Yeahh that graph is based on the TIOBE index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIOBE_index which is based on search engine queries lol. Kinda bad methodology but I guess it does reflect something

I'm primarily a C programmer who likes to work on operating systems and sometimes you just need assembly for certain things tbh and it can't be avoided. There's a significant amount of people working on low-level operating system or compiler or firmware stuff who have to write a lot of assembly, usually for machine specific things. It's really not that bad but ofc it depends on the machine you are programming (x86 is fucking awful)

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Oh so assembly is that high up on the chart because people keep googling for help, that makes much more sense lol. My heart goes out to the assembly programmers. World's strongest soldiers

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

a lot of searches about assembly are because some languages let you embed it (C, rust, etc). there are also lots of tiny devices that you can't target with a lot of languages (or do so in an efficient way, anyway). so you wind up mixing assembly with C or rust to get anything useful done.