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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[-] 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.